"I am drawn to clay by the boundless possibilities it offers with surface, size and form.
Its ability to capture delicate touch as well as dramatic, forceful movements enables me to communicate with a huge vocabulary within my work."
"Throwing on the wheel allows me to connect with the clay throughout the making process.
I can bring motion and momentum from the wheel into the work, expressing different elements by varying the speed of the wheel and the force and direction of movement I place on the clay."
"Within my practice clay is about expressing ideas and experiences as much as making objects.
I explore notions surrounding connection, change and temporality. Capturing fluidity within the pieces has always been key."
"I get inspiration from a variety of places; the sweeping Sussex landscape definitely influences the forms I make - lines within ploughed fields; the edge of cliff tops, the ever changing tide lines.
Details of seed pods, pebbles and shells also find their way into the forms I make."
"The fluidity of dance, its power to communicate through movement and gesture is something I aspire to achieve within my work.
More recently scientific theories of nature have been helping me see and think in interesting, different ways."
"I am constantly exploring ideas and new bodies of work.
Currently I am incorporating foraged elements into my work - locally dug clay, local wood, found seeds and cones, to explore notions of time and place."
Bio
Kate is a Sussex based ceramic artist with a dynamic sculptural practice exploring notions of change within ourselves, the landscape and nature.
Kate grew up in Sussex, studied at Loughborough, travelled and worked in Africa then worked at BBC News for 10 years.
With a career change at 30 Kate completed a second degree in Ceramics at Harrow, Westminster University, with 8 months in New York and a Ceramic residency in Maine.
After a break while bringing up her family Kate came back to her practice with a year long community project with her children’s school.
Now a full time artist Kate exhibits in galleries and museums, sells site specific work at the National Trust and local businesses and volunteers at a local charity.