"I want my pots to make people think, not of the Chinese, but of things like pebbles and shells and bird's eggs and the stones over which moss grows.." - From a letter to Bernard Leach. - Katherine Playdell-Bouverie.
Is pottery an indulgence, an obsession or a profession? In some manner of speaking, it has to be all three. In an effort to be "professional" I did develop an "artist's statement."