Erin Lloyd

Vale of Clwyd, North Wales

Potter

If you are looking to take a piece of Wales home with you, then look no further. Recently featured on S4C, Erin is a potter who creates contemporary ceramics using wild clay and an ancient ochre pigment that she forages by hand from her family's farm.

Influenced by her childhood on the farm and her work as a Heritage Management Archaeologist, her miniature ceramics are investigating mankind’s relationship with nature.

The process of foraging, creating wild clays/glazes and throwing off the hump on the pottery wheel combined with the ochre’s distinctive bright orange colour and its unpredictability when fired means that each piece is entirely unique and cannot be replicated.

"My inspiration is driven by encapsulating the beauty of my immediate landscape within my pots. My natural ceramic glaze is infused with iron ochre from the River Corris, where the colours of the earth pigments are bestowed onto the surface of the pot. The iron ochre creates unique patterns on each pot reflecting the landscape, and parallel to the trace’s mankind leaves within nature, and the natural world on us. The Welsh landscape physically and visually is a constant source of inspiration. My work responds to the soil beneath our feet in Wales and our connection to the landscape.”