CLAY Social - Ali Tomlin

We’re very excited to welcome Ali to The Farnham Pottery and hope you can join us for what promises to be an inspiring and thoughtful talk and demo.

Ali Tomlin’s work is a collection of thrown, elegant, porcelain forms which form a canvas for her colourful, painterly and graphic marks.

Ali studied graphic design at Kingston before going on to have a graphic and branding business in London for twenty years. She came to ceramics following a part time course at Putney School of Art and began to marry her love of mark making to that of shaping forms on a wheel.

Ali throws and turns the pieces to a fine finish. She waits for the pieces to be dry before decorating, preferring to work on the dry, chalky surface. She applies her marks as spontaneously as possible, using stains, oxides and slips, splashing or sponging away areas and inlaying…