Tawny is a sculptor currently creating ceramic figurative pieces. She sculpts one-off originals and hand-coiled and moulded collections of abstract heads using black clays and smoke-fired finishes
Fascinated by shadow and form she expresses this with texture and contrast, creating contemporary likenesses using traditional hand-making processes and inspired by ancient Egyptian, African and Japanese sculpture
Her work explores typical characteristics of beauty, seeking it out in the unfinished, imperfect and irregular
Working in an abstract style she attempts to loosely capture the presence of a person, working over a series of pieces that evolve in abstraction and style, whilst maintaining the energy of the original piece
