Avant Gardeners: C&C at the Stables, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Katharina Klug describes herself as a potter, artist, business woman and maker and is based in Cambridge. The pottery wheel allows Katharina to find endless variations on the vessel. These hand-drawn lines make the work lively, rough, immediate and unique and preserve the moment of mark-making. Inspiration comes from little snippets of observation in her environment. Lines are jumping out at her in almost anything – stripes on cloth, wires and cables, plants and grasses, architecture and streets to name a few.

The other integral part of Katharina's work is colour. Marked by strong opposites, not only between shape and pattern but also between the inside and the outside of her pots. Using her own glazes based on recipes which she has developed and refined over the years, she creates high contrast pieces. Black versus white, monochrome versus colourful, and glossy versus matt.