“I am fascinated and inspired by the process of time upon things. The beautiful marks and colours created by age and weathering particularly on rocks and stone. In my work I seek to capture something of this quiet beauty.
I hand coil delicate, light vessels leaving the surfaces rough and marked. I apply oxides and glazes in multiple layers, often through multiple firings, creating an unpredictable beauty.”
Claire Lardner Burke took up ceramics in 2008 at the Putney School of Art in London where she was born and now lives and works. When she first began, she made small pinch pots on which she experimented continuously with textures, oxides, slips and glazes, making discoveries, finding surprises and loving the unpredictable beauty in the outcome.
