Sally Gardiner

Sally lives on a dairy farm just outside Bath and has a lifelong interest in animals, especially horses and dogs. She creates individual hand built pieces that portray some of the character and attitude of farm and domestic animals.

After a serious illness in 1998, Sally started OCN classes in Ceramics at City of Bath College, and a major passion came to the fore as she found making in clay very therapeutic.

She then did a 2 year BTEC course at City of Bath College in Design Crafts, which were glass, fine metals and ceramics. Sally then decided to specialise in ceramics and went to Bath Spa University and completed a BA(Hons) degree in 3D Design: Ceramics.

All Sally's pieces are hand built in stoneware clay. After biscuit firing, she uses slips, glazes and oxides which can be fired 3 or 4 times before the final glaze firing at a temperature of 1250 degrees.