About Sarah

In recognition of great friendships, Sarah has explored ideas through her work as a ceramicist. By using clay as a metaphor for friendships and the 109-mile, 10 day, Cleveland Way walk which took place over 2023 and 2024 accompanied by the same two dear friends who have joined her on many other walks. The changing lines and creative structure of each piece made, not only represent the ups and downs of life but also the challenging walks they do together.  The support the clay gives in creating the form is the support friendships give during the walk and throughout life. Sarah wanted to create pieces that reflected the landscape, the boulder, the standing stone, but also to resonate with the true meaning of walking with friends and how that impacts on life as a ceramicist.

 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.