Evie May Adams creates ceramic pieces that feel timeless. She finds inspiration in medieval illustration, folklore, modern design and religious relics. Working from her tiny studio on the Sussex Coast, she hand builds her pieces then carefully paints her designs using traditional techniques.
Evie May Adams lives and works from Sussex. Growing up in a place rich in folklore and medieval connections has profoundly influenced her work.
Evie makes pieces that blur the line between her different interests: medieval illustration, folk art, modern design and religious relics, creating characterful items that feel like antiques of the present. She has a particularly strong affinity for objects dug up from the ground, found in bogs and washed up on river banks.
Evie studied illustration at Norwich University of the Arts and graduated in 2015. In the years following she found a love for creating three dimensional work, especially ceramics, as a way of contextualising her illustrations.
Her ceramic pieces are hand sculpted from porcelain or white earthenware, taking care to maintain a sense of the imperfect, before using stains and oxides to paint her intricate designs.
All of Evie’s work is produced in small batches in a tiny kiln in her tiny studio. Evie has been commissioned for a wide array of commercial projects in fashion, product design, interiors, website design and hospitality. She sells her pieces in seasonal website drops, as well as working on bespoke projects.
