Talking about her work, Loewe Craft Prize finalist, Annie Turner said: "Ideas for my work are drawn from the Deben, a tidal river in Suffolk where for generations my family has lived and worked. Fossils collected since childhood form the quality and colour palette found in my work, each colour linking back to the muddy foreshore on which it was conceived. The tidal fragments that I collect - fossillised wood and bone, and sharks' teeth that are thirty million years old - are highly personal things. They are fundamental to my creative responses, and to my sense of connection. The landscape is constantly changing; what is concealed by the flow of water and shifting mud and the structures used to mark and marshal the flow, are revealed. The making process is evolutionary; whilst working on one piece, ideas develop for the following work. I am always learning and testing the clay. Pieces sometimes take one river element as inspiration, others merge two or more to create composite descriptions of the river's architecture and man's intervention; the harvesting of shellfish and, in particular, herrings, using drift nets, evoking memories of times fishing with my late father."