I am a mixed media/mosaic artist, originally from the UK and have always collected old shards of pottery from the garden, the river and the sea. I love to create, make and recycle my treasured porcelain shard collections into mosaic maps.
Mosaic is an ancient art used for storytelling and working in found pieces of porcelain allows me to record the past stories the diverse broken ceramic pieces can tell, illuminating a social history of Aotearoa to me.
I find out the pattern name of every shard I discover and have become an obsessive collector of pottery pieces!