Abigail Schama came to pottery from painting, having studied Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts and Bristol and completing an MA in Art Theory at Chelsea College of Arts. She is a founder of The Mews Coachworks, a female maker community in Northwest London.
Schama’s background in painting means the body and form of clay is another surface for making marks and cultivating textures. Artists as varied as Rembrandt and Twombly continue to inform Schama in illuminating and animating the surface, while the work of her teacher Akiko Hirai has impressed on her the beauty of functionality, and of the relationship of a given piece to the long history of these forms. Each piece has its own history. A glint of gold lustre can break up the clay’s earthy character while honouring the quirks in its skin and contours. The trace of the maker’s hand is present and felt in the fingertips of anyone who handles them.
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