Lesley Doe – Ceramicist

Based at her home – studio in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, Lesley is a Ceramic Artist who explores the repetition of form through slip - casting.  Drawn to casting the mundane, ‘everyday’ objects that populate our lives.  Objects that surround our environment without a great deal of emotional attachment; objects which are considered useful but not beautiful; objects which are often disposable.  Lesley’s process is transformative of these 'found' objects. By rendering them into porcelain, a material considered to be of high status and firing them to a high temperature, these otherwise ephemeral items are transmuted into objects of beauty and permanence far removed from their original conditional life. The final pieces subtly question our own relationship with these objects which are comfortably familiar; used and touched every day, but rarely considered.