Christine-Ann trained at Harrow School of Art and Technology under Mick Casson (1971-73) and then worked with David Leach. In London, she started her own workshop as a member of the Barbican Arts Group (1975-83) and in 1976 was elected to membership of the Craftsmen Potters Association and the Society of Designer Craftsmen.

A study trip to China in 1978 had a radical effect on her work and way of life. Since then she has pursued studies in Far Eastern Art and the Chinese language. In 1984 bursaries allowed her to go back to China for research and now she returns accompanying art historical tours.

For 25 years Christine-Ann has produced thrown porcelain vessels fired in an oxidising atmosphere, specialising in crackle glazes. Her growing interest in Chinese art led to her considering her ceramics as canvases. Copper-red and green splash decoration giving way to a more calligraphic vision of black and white pots. More recently she has also been making large vitrified earthenware pots for the garden or conservatory, some incorporating water features.

In 1996 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowship to visit Japan to ‘explore the way water is used in landscape and architecture’. A project award from South West Arts has enabled her to develop some of the ideas evolved from this trip Among others, 

Christine-Ann’s most prestigious exhibitions include being selected for the C.P.A. Members’ Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1983 and 1994. She was named ‘Somerset Craftsperson 1997’. In 1999 large porcelain pieces were commissioned for Sotheby’s Contemporary Decorative Arts Exhibition.

Christine's works are in the collections of the V & A and the Tate Liverpool

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