1977-84
Studio training, The Cooper Pottery
Three years apprenticeship with emphasis on production throwing, on the edge of the Staffordshire Shropshire border. The Cooper Pottery was run by Dave and Sue Cooper. In a teem of 15 people we made a full range of table ware in oil fired reduction stoneware.

Signum Studios, Staffordshire. Further intensive training, joined two potters who were setting up a stoneware studio. Here I helped build my first kiln and an introduction into all other aspects of studio ceramics.

Coalport China Museum, Ironbridge Gorge. I was employed by the museum to pick a team of trainees to research and reproduce the early coalport wares made on the Severn river site, Victorian china works.

Coalport China Museum, Ironbridge

1984
First studio opened, Llangedwyn Mill, on the England-Wales border making decorative stoneware.

1988-90
Aquired Green Island salt glaze studio and continued the tradition of the pioneering Dorset potter Guy Sydenham. First insight into vapour glazing. Green Island is a private Island in Poole harbour. Dorset ball clay was dug from the beach, then salt fired using a kiln built by Guy, fired with Carosine (exhibition Candover Gallery Mick Casson, Walter keeler)

1990 Greek island of Evia teaching ceramics in summer school of Alan Bain. Woodfiring and Raku.

1991
Walt Glass Studio, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. Working in a team of potters making gas fired stoneware decorated with a mexican influence.

La Borne pottery village, central France. Introduction to wood fired ceramics, working and firing Japanese kilns.

1992-95
Return to England to establish the Stapehill Abbey pottery, Wimborne Dorset, and the building of a wood fired kiln. This was a solo venture bringing back to the U.K some influences from my experiences overseas.

1995
One year out exploring South America for the collection and study of ceramics from the pre-colombian period. Visits to Colombia, Equador, Peru, Bolivia and Amazon basin.

1996
Melbourne and Adelaide, South Australia. Jam Factory, a design centre well known nationally for hot glass, ceramics and wood. Designing and making under Steven Bowers.

1997
New Zealand, Auckland, Wanganui. Working within studios over the country and wood firing at the A.S.P.

May 1997
Travels throughout Asia, Indonesia, Borneo, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Burma and China. Studying the Chinese ceramics found from the Sung Dynasty period 960-1300 AD .

Feb 1998
First visit to Tuscany. Teaching and making in the Pietro Maddalena International School of Ceramics. Developed ash glazes for the Green island exhibition.

Jan 1999
Invited back to New Zealand making and kiln firing.

2000
Built first soda glazing kiln in Italy. Built kiln for the new Museum of the Chini family Florence.

Currently working in Tuscany developing new techniques with gas fired soda kiln and small wood fired kiln.