Artists

Laurel Keeley throws and handbuilds in stoneware and porcelain, finishing her work with coloured slips, metal oxides and pure gold lustre. She draws fish and rivers, round ponds and plants, and glimpses of water through windows.

 

Laurel loves estuaries, the sand and caught pools at low water and the tiny translucent fish. Where the coast weathers, time and the sea give her clues: fossils as small as a fingernail, ammonite prints as big as a wheel.

 

Laurel lives and works in Exeter and is a member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen. Her work has been exhibited in the UK for the last twenty five years and is held in many private and public collections, here and abroad. Her ceramics have been commissioned by the Foreign Office to be taken as gifts on diplomatic visits worldwide.