	Sarah NOEL Dates: b.1950s After studying ceramics at the University of the West of England she returned to set up a workshop in the Gower Peninsula near Swansea. Her influences have been the sea and the circus and more recently the medieval figurative wood and stone carvings of areas such as Brittany as well as folk art generally. She uses slab-building techniques sometimes making figures out of cylinders of clay and firing them with a raku or smoke-fired finish.

Sarah NOEL

Dates: b.1950s

After studying ceramics at the University of the West of England she returned to set up a workshop in the Gower Peninsula near Swansea. Her influences have been the sea and the circus and more recently the medieval figurative wood and stone carvings of areas such as Brittany as well as folk art generally. She uses slab-building techniques sometimes making figures out of cylinders of clay and firing them with a raku or smoke-fired finish.