The Impermanence Collection embodies reflections on the fragility of life and the notion of beauty in impermanence, a central tenet of Buddhism. There is peace to be found contemplating the inevitable transience of life, as all living, organic things bloom and fade, and in the strength to be drawn from the deep roots of friendship and love that steady us through our lives.   

The collection uses the organic, regenerative qualities of porcelain paper clay to balance strength with fragility in a hand-built vessel. Each piece has a delicate translucency and a material ambiguity which stirs curiosity, invites closer exploration and reveals more to a longer gaze. 

This body of work is inspired by the strength of friendship, and the words of a friend who when offering support on life’s complexities and fragilities would suggest “throw love at it”. A faint whisper of her kindness and wisdom runs softly through this collection.

The wonder of towering limestone and shale mountains, the massive glaciers and the deep moraine lakes in Canada were the inspiration for this series in porcelain after a slow, reflective journey from the ocean to the peaks.  The intention was to pause, to take time to be present and to connect to the raw beauty of the landscape.  Among the sense of awe was a stark awareness of climate change as glacial melt is eroding glaciers that have dominated the landscape for thousands of years, threatening environmental hazards such as flooding and loss of freshwater sources.

Each piece in the series has the quiet beauty of pure white porcelain paper clay, intriguingly translucent, the surface subtly textured with strata and the whole imbued with a luminosity.  Each one is tipped in the lustrous elemental richness of platinum, creating a contrast in colour and texture resonant of the world’s epic mountains and glaciers. 

This series is deliberately regenerative, sourced from reclaimed porcelain trimmings and employing the organic materiality of porcelain paper clay.

Each decorative bowl is gently hand built and mindfully created to express the timeless beauty of the landscape and holding a desire to preserve and protect our precious natural world.