Anne-Marie Jacobs - Ceramic Art

About Anne-Marie

Jacobs' work is caused by her fascination with the extraordinary Essex salt marsh, often overlooked in the county famous for it's big skies. On her doorstep is a wilderness threatened by rising sea levels as the marsh struggles to grow fast enough to keep up. The marshland, with the habitats it offers and the biodiversity it encourages, is under threat from climate change, sea level rise and extreme weather events but it also offers our land and homes the best protection from these threats as governments struggle to afford to maintain other types of sea defence. The contrasting feeling of strength and fragility, wildness and restriction are, for Jacobs, always present in the landscape and with this work she wants to add to those things a sense of preciousness and balance which come from the human experience of the marshland. Jacob's slip cast white earthware ceramics are unapologetically decorative, their colours and forms and their hand finished surface reliefs are drawn from the beautiful colours and forms of the marsh and the flora which hold the land against the elements.

Ceramic Art