Ethos

A creative practice born from the desire to shape and make visible the unseen, felt, intuitive reality that surrounds us. 

Leo reflecting on a fired stoneware form in the studio

Following a prolific design career, spanning two decades across both digital and physical product design domains, ceramics was an inevitable evolution and return to the earth. Moving from the ethereal into ever more eternal form.

My work is driven by an innate curiosity of the unseen side of the reality we are immersed in. The fleeting longing evoked by a disappearing sunset, or fascination experienced watching ripples forging their way across a body of water. We can't quite find the right words to label something so subtle, yet so profound, and so we're quick to dismiss or forget the beauty of this experience in favour of the visible facade.

This soulless mirage of matter is however only ever temporarily satisfying to our senses. These faux plastic replicas are snake oil in solid form.

My practice is an antithesis to this sea of sameness, devoid of human touch and emotion, that surrounds us. Favouring the personal, and human, perspective over society's increasingly rabid appetite for fake and fast.

The vessels I create, invite the experiencer to not only become mesmerised by the objective form, but more importantly, to slow down long enough to perceive the truth, passion and inspiration poured into and held within each piece.