Jennifer Alford
- Work
- Biography
My work explores surface and form, evoking the landscape through elemental glazes and instinctive mark-making.
All vessels become canvasses for gestural brushwork and bold incisions. Depending on the temperament of the piece, marks range from spontaneous incisions to abstract imagery. Colours and patterns found in the natural and urban landscapes inform my glaze palette and imagery. Locally foraged clays echo the colours of the land.
“When mark-making, I lose myself in the process. I experience a sense of exhilaration which I endeavour to retain in the energy of the final piece.”
All vessels become canvasses for gestural brushwork and bold incisions. Depending on the temperament of the piece, marks range from spontaneous incisions to abstract imagery. Colours and patterns found in the natural and urban landscapes inform my glaze palette and imagery. Locally foraged clays echo the colours of the land.
“When mark-making, I lose myself in the process. I experience a sense of exhilaration which I endeavour to retain in the energy of the final piece.”
Jennifer Alford is an award winning Irish artist living and working in Scotland.
Jennifer grew up in Dublin and studied violin and music at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and University College Dublin. Recognising the value of a strong formal background as a bedrock for improvisation, she trained in the tradition of production pottery at the Craft Council of Ireland’s prestigious Ceramics Skills and Design Course in Thomastown, Ireland.
At the potter’s wheel, she creates contemporary ceramics in porcelain and stoneware. Leveraging abstract creative processes learned through studying and performing music, Jennifer endeavours to allow for moments of chance and the unexpected to find their way into her ceramic practice.
She is a visiting tutor at Edinburgh Ceramics workshop.
www.jenniferalford.co.uk
Jennifer grew up in Dublin and studied violin and music at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and University College Dublin. Recognising the value of a strong formal background as a bedrock for improvisation, she trained in the tradition of production pottery at the Craft Council of Ireland’s prestigious Ceramics Skills and Design Course in Thomastown, Ireland.
At the potter’s wheel, she creates contemporary ceramics in porcelain and stoneware. Leveraging abstract creative processes learned through studying and performing music, Jennifer endeavours to allow for moments of chance and the unexpected to find their way into her ceramic practice.
She is a visiting tutor at Edinburgh Ceramics workshop.
www.jenniferalford.co.uk
- Jennifer Alford
- Rushlight character - porcelain box form with abstract imagery
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- Jennifer Alford
- Cross - wheel-thrown porcelain bowl with abstract imagery
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- Jennifer Alford
- Gullane - Porcelain canvas with abstract imagery
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- Jennifer Alford
- Wild clay box form
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- Jennifer Alford
- Wild clay box form
- Ceramics
- Jennifer Alford
- Wheel thrown yunomi with wild clay brushwork
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- Jennifer Alford
- Landscape bottles with wild clay - wheelthrown
- Ceramics
- Jennifer Alford
- Landscape bottles with wild clay - wheelthrown
- Ceramics
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