Yeah, I guess I would say I have always leaned towards bold expression. It's great with art and with the hate plates, because you can use it as a tool to help say something you want to convey without having to say it directly. If something is bold it tends to be eye catching and can draw someone in.

They mainly come from interactions and observations from daily life. Some of them are from socialising with friends and any kind of misplaced annoyances or grievances - you can let the hate plate say it rather than having to say something yourself. I think everyone can relate to some of them because everyone has similar situations that they go through day to day. A lot of them come from hanging out with people, witnessing people's annoying habits, maybe family's annoying habits too, and putting them forward into work. I guess people are annoying - I’m annoying, but that’s ok.

Yeah, there is sometimes a more obviously provocative nature in the work, but I feel it is a light-hearted tongue in cheek response - occasionally some people do see it as more blunt, and that's fine if they interpret it as such, but they are meant to be a playful, distracting response to everyday life situations. I'm never that cutting, I think - and if people do take it as too sharp, then just scroll past, move on - my artwork isn't for you and I’m ok with that. I know that it won’t appeal to everyone. Some responses might even help fuel new work.

Anchor it, so it's like a focal point of the room, because I feel like with the text, it’s something that if your eye is drawn to it, and then you'll immediately start reading it and it will probably provoke a reaction - and then it's a conversation starter.

It's intentional, it's like the way that I work with ceramics, like it all starts with a slab of clay cut out, not too much strict thought about the shape but obviously a roundish shape. And then I'll scratch in the text so then the text helps form the actual piece, and then there’s more decorative elements, like the glaze, text colour and edge finishes. With the screen prints, its a bit different, I wanted to elevate them as with it being a larger piece, I felt it needed something extra, for example for the London print, a tasty gold glitzy background, so it's not just a straight replica of the hate plates. With using that larger scale, I felt they would benefit from being more brilliantly bold and eye-catching. So, yeah, I also wanted the gold shape to mimic the shape of an original hate plate, and then the text to fill in that with different colours, so that one is more attention seeking.

I just wouldn't be afraid and just go into it. If you like something, or like something of mine, and you want to put it in a room, you'll always find space to put it in that room, so don't stress about it. You can find other things to help balance and find a mood that sits well with you. Don’t overthink it and let your gut guide you.

I guess a reflection of who we are. If I personally like something art-wise, sometimes you might not know exactly know why you like something, but there's something about it, it's a reflection of your likes, tastes and desires. Or it could be something that provokes a powerful reaction in you, that moves and stimulates you.

From making hate plates and having the reaction that they've had, its been wonderful, and having that backing does kind of steer you into being maybe a bit more confident and experimental and playful with ideas. It's hard not to get too wrapped up sometimes into, say, Instagram and stuff, and pieces that get well-liked. Does that mean that the piece is a popular piece, or is it just that it's got caught up in an algorithm? Mostly I’ll know what kind of idea or message I want to make, and I’ll try not to worry too much about what people might think about it. If I have an idea that I want to put onto a hate plate, I’ll usually do it within the week, if it's a burning idea that I’m desperate to explore and see come to life.

Just pick a colour and paint it to start and then find stuff that you love. I feel like everyone likes something as a subject matter, and likes to collect things. So start with putting together all your favourite things on that wall. You want to make something that, when you look at it, will make you happy, and give you a bit of a heart flutter, and also something that you can change and modify, so it's not always constant, because your attitudes and moods change. So you might want to change stuff around, once a year, twice a year, every couple of years. But yeah, I think just not to be afraid with starting and jumping into it, and coming up with something that you love, and that every me you walk past, you'll still love, and grow to love even more and feels inspiring and mood lifting. I think that was quite a good answer.

I would go round, like, art fairs or markets, and look at things that again, makes your heart flutter a bit, and just start collecting things that sing to you and make you happy or feel something. You can pick up stuff in the tens of pounds, not always the hundreds of pounds - Basically, start collating things that make you feel really happy. I think that's the best way to go. If it's sparked something in you, then that piece is telling you that it belongs with you. So dive into it, get it, love it. You won’t regret it.