Jennifer Alford is an award-winning Irish artist based in the north east of Scotland.
Raised in Dublin, she studied violin at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and University College Dublin. For years, music provided her principal form of expression, teaching her discipline and the balance between structure and improvisation. That sensibility underpins her relationship with clay.
She trained at the Craft Council of Ireland’s renowned Ceramics Skills and Design Course in Thomastown, a programme known for its rigorous grounding in production pottery. There she gained the technical expertise that allows her to develop unique glazes and experiment freely at the wheel.
Jennifer draws on her musical background, using rhythm, variation, and moments of chance to guide the form and surfaces of her vessels. Evoking the landscape through elemental glazes and instinctive mark-making. Locally foraged clays echo the colours of the land.
