Quotations from: Margetts, Martina. “Metamorphosis: The Culture of Ceramics.” In The Ceramics Reader, edited by Andrew Livingstone & Kevin Petrie, 215-17. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.

The choice of materials and techniques, fusing exposed elements with covert messages, has poetically reconnected art to nature, inviting a metaphysical rather than a literal response.  (217)

Human aspirations and nature can be related to alchemy, to the notion of transforming nature’s prosaic elements and our prosaic selves into a condition of harmony and fulfillment: in this respect, the choice by these artists to use clay is especially appropriate, since it, too, involves the transformation of raw earth through fire into special things of permanence. (217)

The unique versitiality of the material, which is able to interpret a great range of styles and ideas whilst retaining its own intimate identity, imbues ceramic works with a particular resonance through time. (217)