Libby Daniels MSDC

Ceramics

About Libby
Libby Daniels has been a full-time ceramicist since 2020, working from her studio in Haslemere on the Surrey, West Sussex border. She makes functional and decorative thrown and hand-built stoneware vessels – these are very much influenced in their forms and abstract surface patterns by the pebbles found on the Sussex coast, as well as plants and nature found in the countryside around her home.
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Libby's stoneware pots are very much inspired by the Sussex coast – specifically the flint pebbles found there. The colours and markings she observes can be seen in the freely brushed underglaze surface decoration over the sculptural forms. Libby makes her pieces by a combination of throwing and hand-building in white stoneware clay. Pots are started on the wheel, then manipulated by hand when still soft enough before coils are added. The use of her own clay stamps and textures add to the coastal style and motifs. Often birds in flight can be found or fish and textured markings.

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Libby gained her BA Ceramics on the design course at Staffordshire university. After a long career as a Secondary School art teacher she decided to set up her first studio in 2020 in the garden of her home. She is an associate member of the CPA, London Potters, Southern Ceramics and an active participant in the creative network in Farnham, Surrey, which has World Craft Town status. Libby also teaches part-time, both in her studio and for 318 Ceramics, Farnham and Loam Studio, Petersfield.

Professional development training

  • From September 2023 awarded a place on The Maltings Creative Business Programme; CBP a government fully funded 18 month business development course

Awards

  • Selected for the shortlist of artists in The New Ashgate Rising Stars award 2024 in partnership with Dan Goode and the University for the Creative Arts Rising stars

Exhibition

  • 'Open', Crafts Study Centre Farnham, Aug 2024 to Aug 2025. Part of The New Ashgate Rising Stars group. Curation of a selection from the archives and inclusion of three original works made specifically in response
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