There is a lot of coastline in New Zealand, and a lot of the beaches have black sand, iron or volcanic. Curious, I made a set of sand research cups with sand from 6 different beaches. I wrote underneath where the sand was from. Each cup only had a small pinch of sand, yet the effect was quite dramatically different from one beach to another. I was hooked.

Sand research has since become the foundation of my functional range of ceramics. Now based in Norway, I continue to collect a little bit of sand wherever I go. I take delight in the subtle, natural decoration the tiny sand grains create and the connection to the places where the sand was collected. 

2017 –
White porcellanous clay with sand
Variable sizes