Inspiration comes from the environment around me. Particularly found objects from the urban environment – wet cardboard boxes, old engine parts, rusty buckets, tin cans etc. The quality of joining, forming and change in these discarded objects are a starting point which develops when working in clay. The tradition of clay vessels looking to artefacts made from other materials for their inspiration, usually being the poor mans version, interests me.

My thrown forms are more contemplatory, they explore the vessel as a metaphor for the human body with terms like lip, neck, belly and foot.
By using silver leaf the pieces although made from the humblest materials are given status and value.

The pieces are raku fired and the patinated silver leaf is applied to the surface. The silver is then lacquered to maintain the quality and finish. Joy Bosworth was selected as a professional member of the Craft Potters Association in 1997and as a Fellow of the CPA in 2000. She is the author of several books on ceramics and currently lectures at Birmingham City University.