Sarah Cooling

Inspired by transparency and essence, I constantly aim to explore materials such as porcelain and mixed media to convey not only a multi-layering of materials and methods with slips, transparent glazes and lustres but also of meanings.

These ideas usually relate to stillness and presence in nature demonstrated by the underlying ethos of ‘truth to materials’. Often I will find myself drawn to using a monochromatic pallet and metallic accents to convey contrasting, dualistic and non dualistic themes

These then enable me to create a body of work using the potters wheel or mixed media materials such as inks and watercolours that narrate ideas around our intrinsic and essential interconnectedness with our precious landscape; it’s and our own precariousness and fragility.