Original ceramic pieces designed and made by Saskia.

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Have you always worked in such a multi-disciplinary way, and how did you come to find your ‘voice’ as a creative?

It’s always been the case since my parents are both artists and brought me up drawing and painting and making. From a young age I was well versed in creative technique and process. I think going to art school was the beginning of exploring how it was I wanted to emerge as an artist, or if I even wanted to be an artist at all?

I studied illustration, but I found it hard to pin myself down to one style or direction. Art school was a great but a tough time as well, I got messed up in an abusive relationship, I didn’t know what I was doing. After I left art school I felt I wasn’t getting anywhere in Glasgow and moved to London, after a while I landed a job in a screen print studio in Holborn which was hard work but I saw a lot of really amazing art and artists, and it was inspiring. That’s when I really started to think, I can do whatever I want, and it doesn’t matter! This is when I began to explore my own visual ideas and give them life.

I used to stress about “style” a lot but I think now I go for it, because my ideas are what I like and it’s these forms and ideas I’ve been deliberately choosing and repeating. This is what makes my style.

Some of Saskia's ceramic creations in the making.

Do you find there are parallels across the different mediums you work in, and how do you strike that balance?

Yes I think there are parallels, I am trying to reign myself in a bit and focus on the visual language over the different mediums. It’s been cool working with marbling because it gave access to numerous new random shapes for use in my collages and balance series, and I also use it cut out in the collages too, and in digital works as well.

I also see parallels in the types of 3D forms I like to make and shapes I use in collage, but It’s one of those back burner ideas, coming soon shall we say! Currently I’m trying out the balancing shapes on the pots and seeing how that translates. I like quite a traditional style of throwing, so it’s finding a nice balance between traditional decoration and something more abstract.

Marbling meets ceramics.

Do you find there’s a relationship between creating work and wellbeing?

I think making work can be therapeutic mostly, until real life gets involved! I definitely spend too much time overthinking stuff and freaking out thinking I'm not good enough or some other rubbish like that. I guess it's a bit of a balance, a little bit of a therapy, and little bit of pain.

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Some shots of Saskia's Barras stall located in Glasgow Barrowlands.

Would you say there’s a difference in the pace of life living in Glasgow, and has that affected the way you work at all?

Because my husband and I have two children, the pace of life has remained close to the grindstone, with barely a moments peace to focus on anything! Moving has been great because we have a lovely big space to live in, which we couldn’t have had in London. We have a lot of friends here too, and the scale of the city isn’t so large, so you can escape easily.

London is a really great place to live, it’s like the beating heart of everything current and young and fresh and new. But other places exist, and they have stuff going on too. A city is a city and you can live in any one. We are all connected on a global scale now, thanks to digital, then also the pandemic. We realised we don’t need to be physically in London to be connected to lucrative work.

Examples of some of Saskia's vibrant 2D work.

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About Saskia Pomeroy

A multidisciplinary artist working across print, drawing, painting, sculpture and textiles, Saskia explores the relationship between colour, texture and shape. Her joyous images take inspiration from nature, glyphs and ancient art, and clients include Harvey Nichols, Folk Clothing and MTV.

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