Tessa Eastman was born in 1984 in London where she continues to live and work. Creativity and innovation sit at the heart of her practice and collectors are drawn to the originality, skill and the daring approach she brings to ceramic art. Building pieces by hand, she draws inspiration from form as seen through a microscope or in the sea and sky. She explores strangeness of growth where systems flow and digress. Eastman’s playful aesthetic lends itself to the abstract cloud-like formations or curiously ambiguous sea-like creatures that appear to inhabit her work.

The artist creates uncanny pieces where idiosyncratic shape, the combination of solid and open forms, bulbous and interlaced, accretive and geometric, weighs with the attention she gives to surface. Coarse and smooth, soft and glossy, pristine and weathered textures are presented, following research into glaze science. Eastman’s studio is at Cockpit, a community of leading craftspeople. She graduated from the University of Westminster (2006) with a Ceramics BA Hons, and gained a Ceramics MA (2015) from The Royal College of Art. She has been working with clay since age six and she has been exhibiting internationally since 2006.