Cavaliero Finn has worked with Loewe Craft Prize Finalist, Annie Turner for a number of years.

Ideas for Annie Turner’s work are drawn from the River Deben, a tidal River in Suffolk, where for many generations her family has lived and worked. Fossils collected since childhood form the quality and colour palette found in her work, each colour linking back to the muddy foreshore on which it was conceived. The landscape is constantly changing; what is concealed by the flow of water and shifting mud, structures used to mark and marshal the flow are revealed.

Annie's making process is evolutionary; whilst working on one piece, ideas develop for the following work. She is 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 like the the harvesting of shellfish and, in particular, herrings, using drift nets, evoking memories of fishing with her late father.

The work titled Net uses the potential for the kiln’s heat to reshape giving the work its final form. Annie has learned how the construction of the work can promote the warping and twisting of the forms, these shifts only revealed when the kiln door is opened, mirroring the effect of the current as it pushes and rotates nets in flow.

All works are hand built, glazed using lithium and a variety of oxides and fired to 1220oc – 1230oc.