I love colour. The pantry idea gives me shelves of opportunity to play with dazzling coloured glazes. I want the colours to be zany and aggressively exuberant. Wild. Once I decide on the colour for the pantry, I paint it. The shelves then become the field on which I can play with colour. I begin by filling each shelf with finished jars. Colours are set side by side in a random fashion.

Once the shelves are filled I begin to remove one here and there, and either leave a space or fill it with another colour. I am never really sure. This process can go on for weeks until I achieve a balance of colour and shape that settles over the whole.

This act of creation is in constant flux. Ideas are proposed, considered and discarded until I arrive at a complete work. The new work is not the end. It is only one of many searches for an image that represents a feeling, an emotion, a passion for colour.