Virginia Griem is a potter, painter and poet from Kingsteignton, Devon. She has been creating hand-built pots in stoneware for the last 12 years and has developed her own style of narrative pots inspired by landscape, poetry and local tradition.

Virginia believes that clay is an amazing medium which lends itself not just to sculpture and decorative items, but also to storytelling. Clay is a large part of the local economy around Kingsteignton forming a link between the local landscape and Virginia’s own creativity.

She is also a member of Newton Abbot Art Group and, as a poet, is part of Teign Contemporary, Poetry Teignmouth and Moor Poets. Virginia’s current project is ‘Haldon Traces’, a collaboration with other artists and poets in discovering the history and nature of the Haldon Forest and Haldon Heath, the results expressed in artwork and poetry - and of course pots.

A stoneware bowl inspired by the tors on Dartmoor and inscribed with the first line of my poem 'If I were to build a Castle'. The bowl is partly unglazed and decorated with oxides and glazes.

 Ceramic Stoneware

 27x14x27cm