About Samantha

I create ceramic collages and assemblages inspired by the landscape. By capturing the essence of a place, working from a series of moments, relying on memories and emotions evoked. I explore colour and mark making with a vibrant and intuitive energy, creating expressive paintings on fired earth.

I like the warm tones, vibrancy and depth of colour which can be achieved when using slips on a red earthenware clay body. My movements and gestures for mark making are acted out in a intuitive way. I work and react on instinct, every new brush stroke made is a reaction to the last.

My vessels have become three-dimensonal paintings, I enjoy the irregular forms which are constructed, and the relationships between inside, outside, joins and edges. These vessels mirror and reflect the edges within the landscape which inspire me so much, each piece is unique and pose different views just as landscapes do.

EDUCATION

Bath Spa University, 2015-2018, MA Ceramics

Bath Spa University, 2001-2004, BA (Hons) Three Dimensonal Design and Ceramics

EXHIBITIONS

New Designers - One Year In, Business Design centre, London, 26th - 29th June.

From this Land - Thrown Contemporary, London, 18th May - 22nd June 2019.

The Winter Exhibition - Sit Select, Stroud, 2018.

One Year On - Llantarnam Grange, Cwmbran, 2018.

MA Graduation Show, Bath Spa University, 2018.

New Designers, Business Design Centre, London, 2018.

First Firing, 44AD, Bath, 2018.

The Way We Eat Now MUSE: The collection inspires, Holburne Museum, Bath, 2016.