Annie Turner

' Ideas for my work are drawn from the Deben, a tidal River in Suffolk, where for many generations my family have lived and worked. Fossils collected since childhood form the quality and colour palette found in my work, each colour linking back to the muddy foreshore on which it was conceived. The landscape is constantly changing; what is concealed by the flow of water and shifting mud, structures used to mark and marshal the flow are revealed. The making process is  evolutionary; whilst working on one piece, ideas develop for the following work. I am always learning and testing the clay. Pieces sometimes take one river element as inspiration, others merge two or more to create composite descriptions of the river's architecture and man's intervention; the harvesting of  shellfish and in particular herrings using drift nets, evoking memories fishing with my late father.The work titled Net uses the potential for the kilns heat to reshape giving the work its final form. I have learned how the construction of the work can promote the warping and twisting of the forms, these shifts only revealed when the kiln door is opened, mirroring the effect of the current as it pushes and rotates nets in flow' .

Annie Turner