Ceramic Review: Masterclass with Sarah Scampton

Ceramicist Sarah Scampton shares the steps she follows to create her finely marked, multiple-fired sculptural forms. Discover more inside Ceramic Review issue 284, which features the full step-by-step Masterclass. You can order current and back issues of the magazine from ceramicreview.com.
Film by Layton Thompson for Ceramic Review.

[@justinlanceplunkett]

I love this new journey I'm on, discovering intense and obsessive creators. Sarah has such clarity and purpose. I hope I find those.

[@Cheryl64014]

Amazing to watch. But just once, I would like to see one of the artists' finished work.

[@chestpatch2012]

Well they would like to as well but the piece now has a job at audible so we're never going to see any of the finished work

[@hobbypotter]

So eloquently described her process ... loved it!

[@hetalchudasama]

thanks you for sharing insight in your work. It was most enriching.

[@sumanpaul613]

Beautiful work so different soft strong both are togeather thank you SARAH

[@berneemartin4383]

What a beautiful, layered surface full of complexity....

[@mytwoboys121]

Just fantastic Sarah! So informative and such inspiring and wonderful work

[@blogginglife7956]

Incredible work and idea

[@incilakay2303]

Superrrr, thanks for the video.

[@MogyorosiMJ]

How can I have this masterclass?

[@shauhengli5177]

It's incredible

[@sophieguillemot328]

Amazing 😍

[@vulcanswork]

Love it

[@priscillallenza1965]

Súper bello!

[@tarafrey545]

I can't catch the type of clay being used here, sounds like a Dutch 'vingalin' clay?? .., subtitles say dingaling (ha ha), can anybody help shed light on this for me??

[@jtpaar1732]

I've watched a few of these videos and I'm still not exactly sure what point they're collectively or individually trying to make. All the artists highlighted are quite intriguing, however, the videos are are too short and lack information to really get a feel for what they bring to the pottery world, other than a brief notion of their techniques. I guess I'm wanting to know more about the artist and more about their accomplished work. For example, Ms. Scampton has a rather unique process for utilizing clay and slip, but are these pieces decorative or have a specific function? Is what we saw in the video the finished work? As I stated, there are other videos I've watched that also don't seem to answer such basic questions. For these reasons, I won't waste my time watching any more of them.

[@Cyberdactyl]

I agree. Most of the video shows very little of the finished work. This video, for example, looks like something to be learned in a summer JuCo noncredit course.

[@cnp8223]

I love these videos. I think they are clearly about the nuances of each maker's process, not the product exclusively. Why they do what they do and how they have arrived at it. I think like Scampton's work, collectively these short clips are arriving at a patchwork of sorts. To know more about each artists work, simply google them, these are not biographies.

[@carinavansteenbergen8324]

I think it's obvious that these are decorative pieces. Even touching beautiful pieces!

[@ninapesner3434]

Look up her name and you should find examples of her work.

[@bais.5420]

interesting!))

[@robertcoyle1532]

Might go faster with a slab roller...

[@pjgreen1786]

Might but I think you’re missing the point of something that looks handmade rather than mass produced.

[@shunlau7051]

@@pjgreen1786 texture is the key

[@bitchyouthought627]

She says that the reason why she decides to build it like that, is to make it appear simple, but in reality she made it with very small slabs of clay.

[@michaelstem8703]

But then she couldn't act like they were super cerebral!

[@extraSPARErib]

Well glad she has drugs. This one ... not in her mind but maybe beside it, definitely out of it though.

[@puggilove]

Pretentious nonsense.