Carys Davies

With a degree in engineering and many years' experience as a management consultant to the industry, in 2004 Carys left her job to start a degree course at Harrow School of Art in ceramics. Having worked for Edmund de Waal as a Studio Manager since qualifying, Carys now has her own ceramics practice.

Carys works with porcelain, a plastic material which softens under extreme heat, becoming jellylike and liable to change shape. She loves this character of her chosen medium, delighting in its nature and playing on the anomalies.

Her pieces are quite unique - the outside of her volcanic bowls like pitted pumice, the inside delicately glazed in soft pearlised colour. The shapes are simple but the contrasting textures produce a tension and energy, the rough exterior protecting a delicate inner lining.

Carys has exhibited her pots since 2008 showing at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Art in Action, Kettle's Yard and Ruthin Crafts Centre, and has been represented by Shirley Crowther at AAF and in exhibitions at The Jointure Studios in Sussex.