Meet the Artist

Pam Gray is a ceramics artist, yoga instructor and writer living in the Perth hills, Western Australia.

She draws upon nature in mindful moments as her biggest inspiration, spending many a day floating in her local rivers, hiking, foraging, subjecting mushrooms to microscopic study and building in clay.

From her youth, Pammy has always had a strong passion for the environment. She was an activist and taught courses for families in adopting practical permaculture. After being diagnosed with Endometriosis, she turned to the natural world and the relationship between art and science for emotional healing.

Pammy created studies of Australian plants, fungi and seaweeds. This combined field studies and microscopy with watercolour, lino printing and ceramic art in the hope of encouraging people back to the natural world.

Through this work, Pammy's interest in ceramics grew. Drawing on her years of experience as a qualified yoga teacher, She committed to almost 4 months of Sadhana, where she would practice daily yoga and mala meditations of 108 breath rotations, while forming a ceramic cup, and keeping a daily journal of mantra, poems and musings.

She found great comfort through the 108 cups practice, leading her to both physical and emotional healing, a renewed gratitude for Sadhana, as well as a powerful need to create with clay.

As she journeyed on with ceramics, she became more aware of her connection to land with every day she had her hands in clay. This led her towards foraging and processing her own wild clay in her works, creating an immutable bond with the hills and rivers she loves.

Pammy believes it is important for her to depict the humanity in the art she now creates, leaving behind the technological conveniences of electric throwing wheels and over glazing. She now hand builds her pieces, seeking to expose the true nature of the forms and the clay, allowing them to look as if they have been born of the earth, instead of machine manufactured.