Libby Daniels
2025 – Taking part in Potfest South West – Shaftesbury
Libby Daniels is a ceramicist working from her home studio in Haslemere on the Surrey, West Sussex border.
Libby makes functional and decorative pots which are influenced by the plants and nature in the countryside around her as well as the pebbles on the Sussex coast.
Sea-worn flint pebbles collected from the beach, with their surprising colours and abstract patterns give rise to freely formed pots. Using a variety of techniques, pieces are thrown and altered then coils are added and rims shaped.
Others such as the distinctive tapered jugs are stamp impressed and slab formed. The handmade clay stamps of birds, fish and plants give impressed motifs and textures into the surface. The distinctive, precise coloured line of the rims of the sculptural vessels are an exact margin from the exterior to the interior.