Grant Sonnex

I love the ambiguity of the abstract, the direct emotional communication of sculpture, and the tactile fluidity of clay.

The forms I make usually have their origins in something found in nature. I might sketch a few ideas, but quickly move to working directly with the clay. I like to work in a receptive way, having an intension for the finished piece but paying attention to it as it grows and staying open to possibilities beyond the original idea.

And what is the work about? Over a creative life that has encompassed music and sound, science and wildlife broadcasting, furniture making and landscape painting I have seen a shift in what matters to me from knowledge to experience, thought to feeling, words to form, and product to process. I think that is part of what shapes the work today, along with a fascination with the way that what we make with our hands can express something fundamental about being human and being part of nature.