Sophie Cook

Cavaliero Finn has been featuring Sophie Cook's wonderfully elegant and joyfully coloured porcelain vessels on and off since the gallery was founded in 2004.

Having graduated from Camberwell School of Arts in 1997, Sophie has spent more than 25 years working in porcelain hand throwing her ceramic forms, constantly pursuing perfection in form and colour.

Talking about her work in a recent interview in Ceramic Review, Sophie said:

"I'm always striving to find the next perfect shape or the next perfect colour - it's an obsession."  

And it is an obsession. Sophie throws at least four pieces a day of the same shape, creating bottle, pod and teardrop forms in her pursuit of perfection.  Her throwing is precise and the making process often precarious. After two days of drying, the pots are then carved for a refined silhouette - an extremely time consuming process. Once spray-glazed, they stand to dry for a week and are fired to 1250°C. It is an incredibly delicate operation and rarely, if ever, do all four pieces survive.

Sophie's vessels are a can be found in some of the most beautiful residencies around the world.  Her work is featured in permanent museum collections including the Geffrye Museum, London, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Manchester City Galleries and was included in the touring exhibition 'European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century'. In 2002 she won the Adrian Sassoon Award of the Kiln at Chelsea Crafts Fair.

"Sophie's work is a collector's dream. The more you own, the better they look."  Olivier Dupon - The New Artisans

Sophie lives on the Suffolk coast with her partner and their 3 boys. The Suffolk landscape continues to be an inspiration for her work, most recently she has developed a new range of earth tone colours, ranging from umber to deepest navy.