Kerry Edwards initially established a name for herself as a watercolour artist, having trained at Hatherley’s School of Fine Art in London. However, it is her ceramics that really caught my eye. Somehow, having retrained in ceramics, she has managed to transfer the skill of working in the fluid unforgiving media of watercolour, to the glazes on her white earthenware. Kerry makes this look effortless, but it is incredibly difficult, and requires considerable talent to achieve the subtle change in tones, and the lightness of touch with glazes.
Kerry’s work is traditional and contemporary, revealing an innate sense of both structure and design. Her subject matter is drawn from romantic memories of her childhood, with heaving bowls of fruit and vegetables, and the garden overflowing with Agapanthus, Lily of the Valley and Hydrangeas.
For me, it almost feels like a beautiful watercolour painting has landed on the ceramic. Now Kerry is deservedly recognised as a very accomplished ceramicist.