Creating art is often a journey of self-discovery.  I tend to make intuitively with the meaning behind my work unfolding over time, even long after the work has been created.  Sometimes it can take another person to point out something about my work before my own eyes are opened to what I see before me. While wandering through the Blue Mountains with my family, my husband spotted some mossy, lichen covered rocks and trees and commented how they looked like my vessels.  Before he mentioned it I hadn’t even made the connection to the detail of moss and lichen, I had just been enjoying the beauty of it.  With Rest – Blue Mountains I have taken the motif of the boulder with the moss and lichen as my influence to extend the theme of resting in nature. I enjoy the challenge of working with porcelain and its translucency.