Carrie, born and raised in Teeside, completed her degree in ceramics at The University of Westminster, Harrow, in 2001. Post degree life went in a different career direction but after several years she built up a workshop in her Peak District garden. Then a combination of a move back to Lincolnshire with a cottage studio in 2021, and two children both in full time education, made it possible to slide from hobby potter to professional ceramic artist. She now lives in rural Fulstow, Louth, and travels the uk from Scotland to the south of England exhibiting at various ceramic shows and galleries, and teaching a few hand building and raku workshops around her show schedule.
Carrie finds the greatest connection with clay through hand building, from shaping flat sheets of clay into elegant functional ware drawing inspiration from the Chinese Yixing teapot makers, to coiling and pinching clay into sculptures, vessels, wall pieces, or jewellery (combining ceramics and silversmithing).
Her sculptural vessels are generally coil built, either from grogged porcelain white stoneware decorated with vibrant glazes in vivid blues and bright turquoise and fired in an electric kiln up to 1280-1300c making them functional and robust, the colours unconsciously evoking images of hot coastal shores.
Or from Ashraf Hanna raku clay with carved and impressed textures using light and shade to create surface interest alongside the mesmerising colours achieved from Raku such as crackled whites and turquoises, and metallic rainbow hues against carbon blacks.
Her latest sculptural vessels and wall pieces have explored spiral textures inspired by themes of sacred geometry and the golden ratio. The spiral is one of Earth’s most ancient of symbols, representing the infinite motion of the universe and the continuous changing and evolving journey of life.
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