Vanessa Cohen is a South African artist and ceramicist who lives and works in London. She has a BA Fine Art degree (Sculpture major) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Her fascination with ceramics began when she was tutored by the celebrated South African ‘artist-potter’ Hylton Nel. Vanessa produces a delicate range of handmade tableware which very subtly explores and expresses the distorting qualities of thin clay. An element of chance is embraced as she allows her bowls to uniformly distort into organic egg-like shapes in the kiln. Vanessa views working with clay as a sacred and meditative process whereby the vessels become therapeutic containing spaces which invite calm contemplation of their quiet, gentle simplicity.