Colours and patterns from the Cornish land and sea, inspire Charlotte's ceramics. Charlotte is constantly inspired and energised by her surroundings as she lives and works in a converted granite chapel - with sea views of the nearby Cornish coast. Sources for colours are found nearby in the changing fields seen from her window, hedgerows of gorse and hawthorn, wild flowers, sky and sea. Patterns are abstracted from granite walls, field lines, cliff and rock strata and sea and surf lines.
The pots are individually handbuilt, creating an organic asymmetrical shape, which must spring from the base to create a continuous curve. The rims are pinched and uneven resembling slate edges on the chapel roof. The pots are like a collage, so the colours and patterns go all the way through, rather than just the coated surface. When leather hard they are burnished with a pebble and high-fired. The burnishing produces a surface that echoes wind polished geology, time weathered rocks and tactile pebbles smoothed by the surf.
