Clare Ferguson Walker

Clare was born in Carmarthen in 1978, and has lived in Wales all her life apart from a brief spell in London. She has been passionate about art since early childhood, spending hours obsessively drawing and making plastecine models. She moved to a house with a pottery attached to it when 18 and spent much of her time there experimenting and falling in love with clay.

Clare started selling her work in a local gallery and soon decided to expand her knowledge base, and so enrolled at the West Wales school for the Arts and embarked on a degree in sculpture. She graduated in 2003 and was determined to continue her art career so successfully applied for grant funding and was able to set up a fully functioning home based workshop, from which she produces all her work in ceramics and her paintings. 

She was able to move into bronze production 2 years ago, working with one of the countries most renowned foundries. Clare loves the excitement of the foundry process and likes the permanence of the material. "I know that after I am gone, there will be a little of myself immortalized in my sculptures"