Dr Sharon Taylor

Sharon Taylor is an award-winning ceramic artist whose practice bridges art, science, and storytelling through clay. Rooted in a scientific background and formal fine art training at the Slade School of Art, City Lit, and postgraduate study in Professional Ceramics Practice, her work combines creative expression with technical precision.

Winner of the Ceramics Award at the Lowes Dickinson Open Exhibition 2026, her work was praised for its “thoughtful and highly considered use of materials and techniques” and its “demonstrating both technical knowledge and sensitivity”. The judges commented that “her work is elevated through its use of analogy, creating a poetic and reflective quality”.

Drawing on themes of fragility, repair, resilience, interconnectedness, and renewal, her practice is deeply informed by years spent observing the human body, emotion, and healing.

Working under the name Sheramics Art, Taylor creates one-of-a-kind ceramic artworks that are hand-built or wheel-thrown, then transformed through layered surface decoration, carving, and painterly mark-making. Inspired by the organic beauty of nature and abstract interpretations of the human form, each piece is individually conceived to function both as a contemplative object and sculptural presence.

Her work often explores the dialogue between art and medicine, balancing durability with delicacy through multi-stage firing, colouring, and glazing processes, typically at stoneware temperatures of around 1260°C. Produced in small, thoughtful batches using renewable materials wherever possible, her ceramics are intended not only as art forms, but as objects of reflection, connection, and quiet emotional resonance within a space.