"I am a potter because I enjoy the basic feel of clay, its versatility and the actual making process. Its type of plasticity is not found in any other medium. It can be stopped at any point and made permanent by firing, rather like the stones under one's feet."

Sarah Perry trained at Camberwell art school where her teachers were Lucie Rie and Hans Coper. She gained a BA (Hons) in ceramics.

She works in stoneware and porcelain fired in an oxidising atmosphere to 1280 degrees centigrade and makes thrown and hand-built pots decorated with glazes of intense blues, turquoise, purples, pinks, and greens. On some pieces she uses metallic lustres and refires to 780 degrees centigrade.

In the seventies she lived and worked in Argentina, exhibiting in Buenos Aires in between journeys round South America.

In October 1995, a piece of her work was auctioned at the American Craft Museum in New York.

In January 2002 she was commissioned to make 85 pieces for the Sandy Lane Hotel, Barbados.

She now lives and works in Greenwich, London.

Her work has been bought by Paul Merton, Jude Law, Ralph Fiennes and Jonathan Pryce.