The word ‘wroet’ literally means digging in the ground,
like a pig does with its snout. Figuratively, it can also mean working hard or toiling to achieve something.

Creative Process
For us as artists, ‘wroet’ is a fitting metaphor for our creative process. We enter the unknown with an initial idea, not as something fixed, but as something to dig into. By experimenting with different claybody’s, forms, glazing and firing, we learn through doing. This process is often intuitive and ideas are tested, discarded, reworked, and transformed. To “wroet” means being willing to get our hands dirty and to accept uncertainty in the process.

Ongoing cycle
Reflection is part of this digging as well. We step back to examine what has emerged, identify tensions or gaps, and decide where to dig further. These insights often send us back into the process again.

In this way, wroet describes our practice as an ongoing cycle of digging, questioning, and reworking—driven by effort, curiosity, and persistence—through which our initial impulses gradually take shape as meaningful work.