Claire Allam

I have been a ‘maker’ for as long as I can remember and still have pots I made as a six-year old in Cornwall. My work is often a response to natural forms and landscape and I usually work in porcelain where I’m fascinated by the interaction between the form I create and the firing process. I use pit firing, raku or wood kilns by choice, celebrating the unpredictability of the results and the combination of fragility and strength that is porcelain. Ceramics is ‘elemental’ – earth and water transformed by air and fire. My role is to create the most beautiful form I can and take a leap of faith. You could say my work is about hope and optimism.