​Jess Skelton is an award winning artist with a background in psychology and production pottery. Her work is sourced in the vessel and employs playful and disruptive techniques that push material to its limits. The work is a dialogue between maker, environment and material. Equal weight is given to intention and happenstance and making marks are left explicit and often elevated.  

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​An identification with precarious existences and marginalised communities underpins the work. Jess is particularly drawn to what she calls ‘The Shadowlands, physical spaces out  beyond society's polished facades where the natural world exposes and reclaims humanity’s interventions.

 

Jess works predominantly in clay with the backdrop of a multiplicity of media as inspiration and process, She is particularly drawn to boatyards and their inhabitants, meeting points of opposites, dereliction, detritus, graffiti and the bright colours of toy cars.

  

Jess teaches throwing,  expressive handbuilding and surface decoration alongside making her own work. Watch this space for upcoming 'Thrown to Abstraction' courses and Disruptive handbuilding and surface decoration workshops. 

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