Ange’s work grows out of her love of clay. Working with a combination of coiling and Slab-building, she produces evermore simplified, sculptural work combining the lives of people she meets with the colours, textures and forms in the landscape. She continues to balance figurative pieces and the more abstract forms of pebbles that she studies. For her they are both about capturing a fragment of a story or a moment in time.

Ange sees her ceramics as coming from nature and returning to nature which is what has led her to her pebble work in which she has been collecting pebbles from the beaches of Suffolk, drawing them, studying them and looking to add discipline to her building techniques by replicating them. Her aim is to convey their form and the wonder and excitement of finding them.

Ange has had the privilege of living and working with some amazing, inspiring people around the world. These people, their stories and the moments they have shared are what inspire her figurative work. She believes strongly in the power of community and unity in diversity, my figures, often women, share spaces and relate to each other.

Ange loves drawing and painting and she looks for raw, matt painterly surfaces in the decoration of her ceramics. She fires at both high earthenware and stoneware, using multiple firings and raw glazing to add depth.