artist
Rachel Peters
Rachel Peters is a ceramic artist whose practice is shaped by material sensitivity, lived experience, and a deep engagement with form. After a career in social work and time living in South Africa, she returned to clay, drawn to its dualities: fragile yet strong, grounded yet full of possibility. Working primarily with grogged stoneware, she embraces natural texture and subtle irregularities, creating sculptural forms with curves, soft edges, and surfaces that invite touch, with a focus on form and texture rather than surface decoration.
Influenced by organic structures in nature and figurative references that often echo the female body, Rachel uses abstraction to explore resilience and emotional presence, where strength sits alongside softness and structure meets fluidity. Presented by urn studios as contemporary ceramic cremation urns for ashes, her pieces offer a quiet yet powerful space for memorial and remembrance.
