Katherine Kingdon

The domestic scale and gentle, enigmatic humour of Katherine’s ceramics both delight and intrigue. Each piece is beautifully crafted, with a deep understanding of figurative imagery.?? Figures are caught mid-action and aims for a playful ambiguity, designed to draw you in and challenge your imagination.

There’s storytelling going on, but it’s not just any story. It’s your story. The characters emerge from the clay, your creative brain does the rest.
Each piece is hand-built with a playful freedom that starts in her sketchbook. Surface imagery is applied to a satin soft background, then incised and modelled. Pops of glaze and underglaze bring it all to life.
Based in Newbury, Katherine’s inspiration comes from a firm grounding in ceramics and teaching, drawing and painting, making and mending and poking about in museums. This all feeds into her work. She has a Ceramics degree from Leicester Polytechnic, An Applied Art and Visual Culture MA from London Guildhall University and a PGCE from Westminster College.
?Whether it’s vessels or figures, Katherine’s work is about character and storytelling. She hand-builds using an off-white stoneware and has a looseness of style that exposes the nature of the materials and techniques used.