A LOCAL artist will showcase her works at the latest exhition held by an arts organisation in Penryn. 

Penryn-based arts organisation, Grays Wharf, is launching a new exhibition on July 22 by local artist Katie Bunnell.

The exhibition will include sculptural ceramics, tableware including plates, mugs, and bowls, and a selection of prints, cards, and ceramic broaches.

Katie works from her studio at Grays Wharf where she has a small kiln to fire her work. She takes inspiration from her local surroundings for her pattern designs, including ferns and pine trees. Her ceramic tableware range includes mugs, plates, butter dishes, pasta bowls, and large serving platters.

Most recently, Katie has been hand-making groups of animals and landscape motifs to create miniature worlds of sheep, cows, mountains, hillsides, clouds, trees, and birds.

Katie says: "My love of all things clay started at school in Devon back in the 1980s with my big-hearted ceramics teacher, a Cornish giant of a man called Dave Tellam from Mousehole.

"Grays Wharf have offered me a great opportunity for a bit of a retrospective exhibition in my home town.

"My hope is that the show conveys the huge amount of joy to be found in making ceramics as well as the narrative, emotion, and creative expression of material things."

The exhibition promises to be a colourful mix of Katie’s work from over the past 15 years.