All of the work is handbuilt using slab construction, coiling and, occasionally, throwing and coiling in combination. Craft-crank and ‘T’ material are used, fired to 1250°C in oxidation, only limited use is made of glazes with colour coming from metal oxides and high firing slips. Firing to this temperature ensures that all the work is frostproof and can safely be left outside all year. On occasion multiple firings are employed to allow for further refinement of the ‘painted’ surface.

Principally surfaces are either textural or incorporate landscape-based abstraction that reflects and responds in particular to the Lakeland Fells.

Some large (up to 2m high) monolithic pieces were introduced at the end of 2006. This year many more large sculptural and functional garden pieces will be shown. Some of these will incorporate surface textures inspired by rock faces at the head of the Borrowdale Valley in the Lake District.