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Claudi Barratt

Mim McCann

Helen Button

Min Maude

Ellie Philpot

Bec Hopkins

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Teresa Poole

Frans deLeij

Deborah Hochreutener 

Sarah MacLaughlin

Marie Monro

Mark Maidment

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Valerie McCallum

Jackie Lowe

Katherine Lawrie

Sylvia Tomkinson

Karen Saunders

Moira Cooper

Suzie Little

Heidi Robinson

Nancy Goodens

Libby is a ceramicist working from her home studio in Haslemere on the Surry, West Sussex border.

She began her career in Stoke on Trent on the BA Design degree course at Stafford University.  Many years of teaching in schools followed before becoming a full time potter.  She now makes functional and decorative pots which are largely inspired by the flint pebbles which she collects on the Sussex coast.

The coast and countryside offer numerous influences for the forms and decorated surfaces of her pots.  Sea-worn flint pebbles collected from the beach, with their surprising colours and abstract patterns give rise to freely formed pots. Using a variety of techniques, pieces are thrown and altered then coils are added and rims shaped. Others are stamp impressed and slab formed. The handmade clay stamps of birds, fish and plants give impressed motifs and textures into the surface. 

She imagines each pebble  as a hollow object rather than a solid form. The layers of hand painted, thin underglaze in blue, grey, green and orange echo the abstract markings and patterns of the pebbles.

A sense of the sky, birds in flight, water  and fish are the elemental characteristics included in her pots.