Anna Lambert
Anna Lambert studied ceramics at Bath Academy of Art and University of Central Lancashire and has been producing hand built earthenware since 1980. Anna currently works from her Crosshills studio that she shares with painter David Thomas. She has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Contemporary Ceramics, London, and in Europe and the USA.
Anna makes slab-built earthenware ceramics with painted slips.
Anna‘s ceramics reflect an interest in place, exploring narratives relating to changes in farmland and regeneration of woodland, orchards and gardens, and focusing on renovation and peril in her locality.
Each piece develops during the making, using drawing as a starting point which is combined with the abstract qualities of pots
Fine pliable sheets of clay are assembled then altered and fettled. They are painted with multiple layers of coloured slips, often with darker underpainting and further layers of stencil work and sgraffitto, then fired to 1090ºC.
‘I build up the surfaces of my pieces spontaneously, riffing on ideas of space, narrative and joy. It’s got to be what comes from me.
I get to a point where I can push things a bit, hoping something exciting will happen – and sometimes it does.’
