I was born in Tywardreath, mid Cornwall, and began sieving the clay streams for fun around ten years old. I left for London in 1969 and followed an eventful journalism career before entering The Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, where I gained a B.Ed in art education and educational psychology. A further qualification from London University’s Institute of Education advanced my career working with autistic children.

With my livelihood relatively stable, I worked part time as a ceramic sculptor for the next twenty years. The participation in many London exhibitions and galleries enabled me to sell my work to private collections in London, the Home Counties, France, Germany and Italy.

This happily combined lifestyle ended in 1994 when a back injury resulted in early retirement. Two years later I returned to Cornwall, to Penwith, and almost immediately began to make friends with local artists. Nowadays work is seasonal: exhibition and gallery work in the summer, commissions in the winter.