Lorraine Ditchburn

www.lorraineditchburn.com

Lorraine was born in Barnstaple in 1961. She originally worked as a research scientist, but returned to college in her early thirties and graduated from the University of Plymouth in 1998 with a first class honours degree in Three Dimensional Design.

Lorraine's work is produced by slip-casting porcelain in plaster moulds. Slip-casting is traditionally more associated with industrial production, but Lorraine has adapted the process to produce objects which have a hand-crafted aesthetic.

Her work is based on simple, organic forms combining their simplicity of shape with the fineness and purity of porcelain. She draws her inspiration from many different sources and much of her work has been inspired by the intricately linen-wrapped mummies found in ancient Egyptian tombs.

In craft or industrial design she believes that nature holds many of the answers. As Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) wrote, "In her (Nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous". She tries always to approach her work with this in mind.