ALISON PALMER
Ceramic Artist

My goal is to make unique, functional and lovable pots. Animal imagery underpins all of my work whether animals decorate the plates, bowls, platters and mugs or animal sculptures are assembled from thrown or hand built pieces. I like the fluidity of moving between the two modalities. The tessellations found on the plates were/are designs that I started to develop during the pandemic when everything was so up in the air and unnerving. In retrospect, it was a personal way of containing and controlling (in my head) the chaos that was going on in the world. I immensely enjoyed the long hours I spent in the studio during that time of isolation. As with any art form one idea leads to the next and sometimes my inspiration comes from the previous pieces I’ve worked on and sometimes i turn to ancient pottery to be inspired.This has been my mode of creating through my many years of working with clay. Remembering back to when I made my first piece in pre-school, I remember the feeling of being totally enchanted by the magic of working with clay and luckily for me that feeling still holds true.

Hours of Operation

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY