“Floating Bowl Trio” is part of a current series of ceramic objects demonstrating interaction between what is solid and material, and what is numinous and ephemeral. The vessels explore uncertainty resting within boundaries and across thresholds. This uncertainty is key to my enquiry; how to realise the physical and spatial representation of the blurred and uncertain edge - the penumbra of material. The presence of the vessel on the surface is floating and shifting according to perception.

My materials are porcelain, space and light - physical elements in the relationship between the object and the body of the viewer, which deal directly with perceptual phenomenon. What is seen and understood of solidity and materiality shifts according to relationships of object, space, light and the eye of the viewer.

The pieces are made from parian porcelain, first thrown on the wheel as thick walled vessels and then turned on a lathe whilst leather hard. They are intensively hand crafted, involving risk and patience, but wear this subtly in their visual presence, seeming possibly to come as much from the machine as the hand.