Sabine has studied Art and Design, and specialises in ceramics, now working at West Herts Collage, Watford.

Her work is inspired by natural forms. Many of the stoneware pieces are glazed in matt-white applied over or under metallic oxides. Aiming for simplicity, she explores balance and harmony within a form . It is the low-fired burnished ceramic forms with their delicate smoke markings which most fully express the sensuousness of the clay.

Sabine enjoys the process of allowing the form to evolve from the clay, and creating arresting pieces of original design, in which simple minimal decoration enhances the shape and movement of the object. She works from her studio at home in Harpenden, and exhibits locally.

Artists Statement: My ceramic pieces are mainly inspired by life forms, relating abstractly to the human body. They are simple, and are expressions of my search for balance and harmony. They are low-fired burnished forms, with earthy colours and delicate smoke markings. To fully appreciate these rounded forms, which swell to bump or fall away into a hollow, one needs to explore them also with closed eyes through the sense of touch. The forms seem unforced as if they had evolved in the Making process, rather than having been formed with a fixed idea in mind. The Potter stays in touch with the changing dynamics of the clay. Each object emerges, as if it had made itself, and thus it becomes the unique piece it is.

Apart from low-fired ware, I also make high-fired stoneware pieces. Some of these are glazed in matt white, applied over or under metallic oxides, or in matt black. The simplicity and minimalism of the decoration beautifully enhances the shape and the movement within each object. Other pieces are unglazed, and are built from clays of different colours and textures, which combine to enhance the form. In as far as these ceramic pieces are an expression of the search for balance and harmony, they deeply satisfy. In addition I use Raku firing, exploiting the spontaneity of the process to produce striking effects of colour and glaze.

In each style, the combination of traditional materials and aesthetic quality makes these pieces objects with a timeless appeal. They inspire and blend sympathetically with a variety of living spaces, interior and exterior, to which they contribute an individual organic beauty.