Crabby's work is created with a specific ceramic firing process that uses both fire and smoke to create unique patterns and designs. Indeed, her reputation is fast growing as a practitioner in Raku ceramics and the way in which she has transformed the process into a vibrant and contemporary art form.
As I handled each of the forms, carefully positioning them to be photographed, I could feel the raw ingredients. This sensation was then immediately followed by one of discovery and excitement when seeing the colours and patterns enhanced under the studio lighting.
Influenced by landscape and nature, Crabby's ceramics resonate and echo with the eroded, geological quality of worn pebbles, rocks, paths and trails and the contours of dry stonewalls. Her work is not illustrative but a representation of the wonderful man made and fostered Oxfordshire and Cotswold landscape. It is a landscape and nature that gives direction and orientation to her ceramics.
If you want to see work that captures the imagination then I urge you seek out an exhibition of Crabby's work, but be careful of those itchy fingers.
