Ceramic Gallery

My name is Kim Foale and I am a Ceramic Artist. I fell in love with clay over twenty years ago but life and children intervened. I spent most of the nineties and early noughties raising my children and helping my husband build our home from recycled materials.

When my eldest child went to college she dragged me along with her and I rediscovered my love for clay. I have been working towards a diploma of ceramics, part time since 2006.

Josiah Wedgwood the father of industrialised pottery production is quoted as saying, ” I will turn men into machines.” My work  is made in direct  response to the factory produced ceramics that you can find in any large department store.

I am not a machine. I deliberately leave fingermarks in the glaze, somewhere within my work and they are most evident at the base of my tall cups. My edges are uneven on purpose and I  put a lot of time and thought into each individual piece.

I make one off original art pieces, generally with an environmental story to them. I fire in reduction as well as oxidation and I like to use stone or bone tools when I am working, as my clay responds better to these natural materials.

The more I learn about ceramics the less I realize I know and I am happy to be a perpetual student of  my craft.

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