Qi Fang Colbert Arts
2026 – Taking part in Potfest in the Pens – Melton Mowbray and Potfest in the City- Glasgow
Qi is a Northumberland-based, internationally exhibited artist, illustrator, and ceramicist who graduated with a PhD in Fine Art from Newcastle University in 2019.
Influenced by Phenomenology, Taoism, Early Renaissance art, and Surrealism, Qi creates original narrative artworks that explore a range of themes from how we interact with nature to feminist and cultural representation. Qi creates freehand carved stoneware ceramic works using a technique that was popular during the medieval period and also in eastern cultures. Each work is freehand carved when the clay is leather hard and then inlaid with coloured clay slips and under glazes.
“The subject matter in my works conveys an open and quite often quirky, playful, and sometimes ironic circular narrative. Rather than following a well-planned blueprint, I let the shape of the clay or lino determine the composition. Like a spreading vine, my images find ways to shape the object, forming the outlines and content, vice versa, to capture the flow of my consciousness, stories, and emotions.” — Dr. Qi Fang Colbert