Seed creatures are imagined examples of nature’s evolutionary experiments as evidenced by tiny fossils from the Precambrian era. The earliest complex life-forms were neither plants nor animals – all such categorisation is in any case primarily a human construct. They were extremely diverse in type, and are the ancestors common to all life on Earth.

I am not a potter or a scientist but understand that the formation of clay, with its specific minerals and their rôle in oxidation, was pivotal in the Precambrian explosion of life. This, along with clay’s inherent plasticity, makes it the ideal medium for these works. They are completed with the addition of reclaimed iron nails, pigments and sometimes metal leaf and glass.