Libby Daniels
Libby Daniels has been a full-time maker since 2019 working from her home studio in West Sussex near the Surrey border. Her decorative and sculptural formed coastal style pots are all unique with beautifully hand painted surfaces.
The Sussex coast is a strong influence in her work and her pots are inspired by the colours and patterns on the smooth, wave-eroded flint pebbles, the blue grey tones in the water and textures of rusty metal found on the wooden groynes.
Libby forms her sculptural vessels by first throwing on the wheel before re-shaping and sometimes adding coils to further enclosethe neck. The rims are formed into flowing lines, sometimesprecisely accented in a strong colour and details of birds and other motifs are stamp impressed into the surfaces.
Thin layers of underglazes are used to create hand painted abstracted pebble designs over the forms or layered gloss and matt glazes evoking the shoreline.
