2025 – Taking part in Potfest in the Pens – Penrith Autumn

Sarah is an artist who creates sculptural ceramics, each piece is a reminder of the experience it has been sourced from. A story or narrative is an important part of her work. She creates with a contextual understanding which evokes a special response to each piece and informs her designs. Sarah’s work centres around the outdoors, particularly geographical areas of beauty, The North York Moors rocks and cliff formations and the fascination of shape, form, line and space form the basis to her ideas.

It starts with a walk, a view, a photograph and an abstract painting that follows. Sarah continues this response into the clay, forming a structure through manipulation, allowing it to respond to touch, celebrating the unknown results. Ideas are communicated through texture, pattern and mark making, mostly without words or text. Figurative forms, including standing stones, gateposts, beach groins, rock and boulders are important features and lead to creating pieces that reflect her ideas and the rugged, often bleak moors and coast, weathered rocks, moorlands, heather and the coastline are all influences on her ceramics.

Sarah studied Contemporary Craft at York College University and has just completed an MA Visual Practice in ceramics at Sunderland University.

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