Lara Scobie’s ceramics are intuitive. Starting with an instinctive process of mark making, her work is receptive to the moment hand-touches-clay. The ceramics relay the spontaneous process of hand-to-paper drawing; responding to how the materials react with the marks, her work grows around what emerges. Fascinated with the relationship between form and surface, she allows them both to inform each other as the piece develops. Encouraged by botanical forms, Scobie’s work has an organic quality, the lines refusing an exact uniformity, allowing the pieces to wrap themselves around the viewer. This is, of course, aided by her supreme use of strong colour.

Her oranges, yellows, reds, and greens, peak out of the top of their neutral bases, delivering an internal confidence that ensures her work is noticed. Their form is no less compelling: refusing a strict conformity to symmetry, they lean, bow, and gape, interrupting conventional expectation. Scobie’s ceramics are dynamic, un-silent pieces of spliced-joy. A perfect balance between intent mark-making and tumultuous colour.