In 2014, after working as a parliamentary reporter and editor in Hansard, House of Lords, Glenice returned to her lifelong passion for clay. Always fascinated by art and the journey from realism to abstraction, she drew inspiration from the stark, linear qualities of modernists like Kandinsky and Mondrian. She sought to create eye-catching, hand-built decorative ceramics, exploring the power and strength of simplicity through the sharpness and directness of geometric forms. She focused on line and shape, and the tension between positive and negative space.

For her, the making process has become a way to find stillness in a world that feels uncertain and frenetic. Her attention is now less directly focused on the final object but more widely so on the path of its creation—the patient rhythm of hand-building, the meditative process of burnishing, and the direct, grounding connection with the clay.

The body of work she presents is influenced by that approach. While the pieces possess clean, abstract qualities, they also carry the sense of calm and harmony
she cultivated during their making. The stark, natural, tactile surfaces—textured, inlaid, smoke-fired, polished—which require only a single, energy-conscious firing, are designed to be touched and held, inviting a quiet, sensory experience.

While constantly developing work new in both size and design, each collection tells of her personal and artistic shift. It is evidence of how the experience of making—the search for balance and peace—becomes embedded within the work itself. Through these forms, she hopes to offer the viewer not just a visual object, but a moment of the same quiet contemplation that brought them into being.

Glenice is a professional member of Design_Nation and of The Sussex Guild, Designer Makers of Contemporary and Traditional Crafts.