As a child I loved to draw, creating imagined three-dimensional landscapes full of shadow, light and depth. Over and over again. I would create almost the same scene with subtle differences. When my bemused parents asked why I kept drawing the same things I assured them that they were not the same - they were all different. The first time I used the wheel in my foundation year at the Belfast Institute I was immediately mesmerised by its potential, its ability to structure and shape large lumps of earth into solid beauty. Instantly, I realised I had to get to know it better. A week after graduating from the University of Ulster in 1997 I went to Hong Kong, where I worked and learned in several studios before travelling further in Asia, From there I went to Australia, spending a year making highly deco-rated hand-made domestic tableware in the Bush Wa Zee ceramic studio in Bondi Beach. Back in the UK in 2001 I decided to start my masters at the University of Ulster, where the comprehensive business element course began to focus my idea of setting up a studio. Although this was still in the first year, I was sure it was the right time to start, the tutors assuring me that if I left the course at the end of the first year Icould resume at a later date
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机译：小时候，我喜欢绘画，创造出充满阴影，光线和深度的想象中的三维风景。再三，一而再再而三。我会创建几乎相同的场景，但存在细微的差异。当我感到困惑的父母问我为什么一直画相同的东西时，我向他们保证，它们是不一样的-它们都是不同的。我在贝尔法斯特学院（Belfast Institute）创立我的那年第一次使用轮子时，我立即被它的潜力，它能够将大块的土块构造和成形为固体之美而着迷。立刻，我意识到我必须更好地了解它。 1997年从阿尔斯特大学（Ulster University）毕业一周后，我去了香港，在几家工作室工作和学习，然后再去亚洲旅行。从那以后，我去了澳大利亚，花了一年的时间来制作装饰率很高的手工制作的国内邦迪海滩的布什华兹（Bush Wa Zee）陶瓷工作室制作餐具。 2001年回到英国后，我决定在阿尔斯特大学（Ulster University）攻读硕士学位，在那里，全面的商业元素课程开始集中于我建立工作室的想法。尽管这仍然是第一年，但我确信这是开始的正确时间，辅导老师向我保证，如果我在第一年末离开课程，可以在以后的日期恢复
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