Kerry was born in Victoria, Australia in 1956 and came to England with her family when she was 12. She went to school in Gloucestershire going on to the Bath Academy of Art and Design gaining an Honours Degree in Ceramics.

Then with her husband, who designed and built tile stoves and bread ovens, spent some apprenticeship years in Germany honing her craft. She returned to England and was commissioned to work on a mural for Pershore covered market and later worked on major tile commissions for Ruskin Mill College.

In 1991 she joined the staff at Stroud Art College to take up the position of ceramics teacher which she still holds. She was an active participant in the Millenium wall project in 1999, 'Under One Sun' at Redland School, and joined Stroud Valleys Artspace the following year. In 2002 she was asked to create a wall mural outside Nailsworth library.

"Much of the work reflects my involvement with landscape. The windows of slip provide glimpses into landscapes I've walked between Tintagel and Boscastle, the shores of Windermere and along snow covered tracks in the Lancashire hills. The brush work of white slip is a perfect foil for fine sgraffito etched through to the underlying darker slip. This process conjures up the more illusive qualities of weather patterns - the thin greys found on misty mornings or the faint outline of a windswept coastal wall. Thick and thin gestures indicate rolling hills, ploughed fields or the spare branches of trees bearing witness to isolated hilltops. Characteristic of my work are the miniature icons on the base, reflecting the linear designs within the windows.

Since 2005 was nominated ‘The Year of the Sea,’ I have felt inspired to produce work reflecting weather conditions that compliment my hull shaped vessels.

The lines from the shipping forecast mantra float amongst brush strokes of slip and oxides, unforgettable names such as Lundy, Shannon, Rockall, Malin.

Although the wheel is used initially, much of the work is cut into two or three sections and reconstructed. Alternatively some are simply altered on the wheel while the clay is still plastic and responsive. Everything is thrown in small runs, each piece a variation of the others in the set.

A range of large press-moulded platters, seed heads carved deeply through blue slip, are also an ongoing theme. The success of the 'George Mills Memorial Panel' in Nailsworth has instigated more hand building projects.

Any commissions based on these examples will be accepted with the proviso that each piece is individual and cannot be repeated exactly."

Exhibitions

1984 – Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth
1985 – ‘Artisan’, Painswick
1992 - 3D Gallery, Bristol
1992 – South Wales Potters Garden at the Ebbw Vale Garden Festival
1993 – South Wales Potters Garden at the Stuttgart Flower Festival, Germany
1994 – The Workshop Gallery in Chepstow, ‘Just Jugs’
1995 – The Workshop Gallery in Chepstow, ‘Fired Earth’
1995 – Turner House Gallery, Penarth, Wales
1998 – Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth
1999 – The Old Warehouse Gallery, Nailsworth
1999 – Severn Women, Lansdown Art School
1999 – Hook House Pottery, Westonbirt
2000 – Rope Store Gallery, Stroud
2000 – Stroud Valleys Open Studios
2000 – Lemon Tree Gallery, Chedworth
2000 – Anderson Gallery, Broadway
2001 – Stroud Valleys Open Studios
2001 – Prema Arts Centre, Uley
2002 – Thin Dog Gallery, Cirencester
2002 – Nailsworth Festival Open Studios
2002 – Stroud Valleys Open Studios
2002 – Artists and Craftsmen Gallery, Cheltenham.
2003 – Nailsworth Festival ‘Shop Art’.
2004 – Glasshouse College, Stourbridge
2004 – Stroud Valleys Open Studios
2005 – Stroud Valleys Open Studios
2005 – Museum in the Park, Stroud
2005 – Bi-annual exhibition, Horsley Church
2005 – The Old Vicarage with Michael Edwards, Bisley
2005 – ‘Cornucopia’ at Ruskin Mill
2006 – Stroud Valleys Open Studios
2006 - Prema Art Centre, Uley
2006 - Martin's Gallery, Cheltenham with Michael Edwards
2006 - Sky Gallery, Painswick
2006 - 'Indigo Blue' Ruskin Mill
2007 – ‘Cornucopia’ at Ruskin Mill