Annie McAlister-Dilks

Annie has been teaching ceramics for many years. During this time she has investigated a wide range of ceramic techniques and more recently has become involved in raku, naked raku and smoke firing, including the use of saggars. 

Watching sunsets in the vast skies over North Norfolk is the feel and palette Annie is trying to capture with her smoked pots. She favours the blue, grey and green colours the sky reflects in the North Sea, with varying shades of pink and red to spark thoughts of the brilliant North Norfolk sunsets. Annie experiments continually and often uses seaweed and sea lavender in her ragu firings which she secures to her pots with copper wire. These leave interesting, often delicate traces on her work and create a depth and detail that would be impossible to create any other way.

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