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Wendy Farley holds a BA (Hons) in Ceramics from West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, and a PGCE in Art and Design Technology from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Working from her studio in the South West, Wendy has taught in a wide range of schools and colleges — including Dartmouth Prison — a practice that keeps her ideas fresh and continually feeds back into her studio work.
“My work is a response to the visual and sensual elements of nature that shape my life every day. Rhythms, texture, weather and emotion evident in the natural world guide my hand. Inspiration for me is infinite — from the coastal areas of the South West with their crashing seas, to the smaller, more tactile elements of nature… Undulating rims and etched lines are recurring themes — a movement I see in the motion of waves, the contours of a landscape, the lines found on pebbles or the patterns left in the sand by the tide.”
Wendy creates her beautiful vessels using coiling, pinching and throwing techniques, and finishes them through burnishing, smoke firing and electric firing. Multiple layers of slip, underglaze colours and oxides build depth and character, giving each piece its distinctive presence.