Sarah Saunders

Sarah Saunders worked as a pottery technician and ceramics tutor for over 20 years before she decided to produce her own work. She has always been interested in simplifying the form and likes folk art sculpture with its strange proportions and simple shapes and line. She is a figurative ceramicist working mainly with the construction of slabs. Known for her human forms there is often an animal hanging around somewhere. She colours her pieces using slips, oxides and underglazes and she fires to stoneware temperatures.

She likes the way pieces are often highly decorated and because of their age and the materials and techniques used these will often be faded and chipped with beautiful patina. “I love how all this oddity and patterning makes you look…just a little longer, and want people to do this with my work. I want to make pieces of work that look like they’ve had a life, a story, a past. I want to create this through the form, texture and decoration. I want to tell a tale.”