Artist Statement
Tamlin is a ceramic artist and forest school teacher based in Norwich, whose work is informed by walking the landscape and looking for connection to place. She explores relationships to nature, the environment and details in the everyday through ideas around permeability, memory and found objects. Parallels between the rhythmic motion of walking and meditative making processes influence marks and gestures that evolve in clay, cloth and drawings. Traces of place, the weather, folklore and geology influence outcomes and narratives. Methodologies include close looking, slow making, responsible foraging and friendship.
Materials ∙ Making
Works range from sculptural vessels and objects to simple functional wares for everyday use, but are always created with a mindful meditative approach. Mostly working with ceramics, cloth and drawing, some pieces also incorporate word and sound. Tamlin uses porcelain, stoneware and wild clays, often making in series, both hand-built and thrown, to create pieces that explore surface, texture and form. With an interest in natural materials, she collects and forages found objects, words, atmospheres and imprints that echo, retell or remember a place, journey or experience. She looks for balance in our increasingly busy lifestyles, using restorative creative processes, that facilitate wellbeing and nature connection.
Co founder and maker at Lost Yard Studio in Norwich, we hold regular open studios and have created a calm, restorative environment with the intention of sharing ideas, community and creative practice. I work between Lost Yard and a small home studio.
Education∙Awards
Shortlisted for the Charlotte Fraser Ceramics Prize, Holt Festival, Holt, Norfolk. 2024
Forest School Programme Leadership (QCF) ∙ OCN Bishops Wood Centre 2014
MA Textile Culture ∙ Norwich University of the Arts ∙ Distinction 2008
Axis Arts MA Stars Award ∙ Selected & reviewed by Penny Sexton 2008
BA Hons Wood, Metal Ceramics and Plastics ∙ University of Brighton ∙ First Class 1995
Foundation Diploma ∙ Northbrook College of Art & Design ∙ Distinction 1992