For ages, I had been seeking a way to combine my drawing and print-making background with my clay work. I began experimenting with commercially available underglaze transfers in 2023, exploiting their format to layer imagery and create collages on the clay surface. Applied like temporary tattoos and then peeled away, the immediacy of this process encouraged further exploration and quickly sparked new ideas. In 2024, I began to design my own silkscreens and make underglaze transfers myself using rice paper and Amaco Velvet Inks, a highly concentrated and ready to use underglaze for silk-screening and block printing on clay. However, I found that these home-made transfer sheets were not usable after the day that they were printed, as the underglaze bonded to the paper too strongly, and would not transfer readily. My day job limits the duration of my studio time to a couple hours per night, and I needed to streamline this process as far as I possibly could. Thus, I began to print directly onto the clay. These days, I am designing silkscreens with specific forms in mind, primarily trays and small dishes. I am currently experimenting with gelli plates, rather than rice paper, to aid the transfer of silkscreened imagery onto wheel thrown mugs.