My artistic process involves finding ways to memorialise ash trees dying from ash dieback and bring people's attention to their plight.

As monuments to the trees, I make ‘Steles’ from different clays: crank, earthenware, black and porcelain. They are made with rings of clay, rings of life, rings of the tree, each one a year in the life of a tree, each one individual, each one made with my fingers, torn, rolled like bark, pressed, dried and fired into perpetuity. Some are glazed with the wood ash from the stricken ash trees; some are dipped in wild clay slip, others fired to bisque to enhance the colours of the earthenware clay rings, one in black to evoke death with rings of white fungus.