Hi!

Another big part of my life is being a chef: I have my red-seal and still fund my life through this additional passion. The parallels between these two laborious craft-centred processes and a punishing level effort is not missed by me. What can I say: I love to work.

I am also fascinated by the relationships and stories that begin at the plate or table; the profound ephemera of one art meeting an essentially timeless one and briefly creating new life together.

What really gets me is with clay the place where we release the outcome to the process of firing- where we can no longer control and direct. Working with clay is a collaborative process where you are developing a relationship of curiosity and understanding. I cannot ask the clay to do something it does not want to do. I must endeavour to know it and work with it to make something beyond what I alone could have conceived; this is alchemy of humility and curiosity.

“Hernyó” is the Hungarian word for worm or caterpillar. I liked the idea of little worms making, making, making: slowly working towards something and with each other to create something. They don’t know why they are doing it just that they must - and so it is with me.

Functional work and especially tableware interests me the most, because it is a way for everyone to have something well made and special in their lives- a piece of art at lunchtime. The gallery is a great place to see things, but those places separate us in our lives from both making and experiencing art, and also from understanding that a gallery does not a piece of art make. Mostly I just want to have fun, help others make, and make craft accessible for everyone. It is the most natural thing in the world to want to make.

I love teaching, happy accidents and working with people.