Decorative Plate - Nail Biters

Working in porcelain and stoneware, I combine drawing and printmaking to build narrative on the surface of decorative hand-built ceramics. My drawings are inspired by mundane scenes and moments of connection, interspersed with imagery from half-remembered Scottish superstitions. Fingerprints, brush strokes and making marks are intentionally left exposed to accentuate the relationship between vessel and subject. 

 

I studied Textile and Surface Design at Gray’s School of Art in 2010, where I first began working with clay. After graduating I went on to study for a Masters in Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art in 2014 and stayed on as Artist in Residence. I’m now settled in Sheffield after moving down for the Ceramic Starter Studio at Yorkshire Artspace in 2017.

 

 Porcelain, with Cobalt Oxide Mono-Print and Underglaze

23x13cm