Maps + Cracks

Maps + Cracks

These pieces were born from my time in one of my favourite places in Ireland, County Donegal, especially around the Gaeltacht coast on Irelands Wild Atlantic Way. There’s something about that landscape, its rhythm of stone, sea, and silence, that keeps calling me back.

All of the pots in this series have now found their homes. I make my work in small batches, each collection shaped by a particular moment or feeling, so I rarely remake past pieces. I’ve kept these images here because they capture something essential about how I like to work, the textures, the marks, the quiet conversations between clay and place.

Maps + Cracks grew out of sketching the Donegal landscape, not by chasing the horizon, but by looking down and inward. They trace the cracks in rock, the shapes of tidal pools, and the imagined maps that form in between. These works, like the land itself, are always shifting, evolving, changing, and never quite the same twice.