Current work includes sculptural and/or functional pieces for the garden and conservatory and some smaller scale work suited to a more domestic setting.
Surfaces are often richly textured and much of the work incorporates landscape-based abstraction that reflects and responds in particular to the Lakeland Fells that lie on my doorstep and on which I enjoy walking.

I am constantly searching for new ways to respond to the landscape and every walk on the fells contributes to this.

Craft-crank is used, fired to 1250°C in oxidation, only limited use is made of glazes with colour coming from metal oxides and high firing slips.
On occasion multiple firings are employed to allow for further refinement of the ‘painted’ surface.

Annabel Faraday was born in Germany in 1949, spent several years of her childhood in Egypt before coming to England in 1956.

She discovered the joy of clay at Farnham Art School on Saturday morning classes in the early 1960s. After leaving school in 1967, she attended Winchester Art School, where she was introduced to conceptual art and concrete poetry, and then Croydon College of Art. A radical change of direction then led her to gaining a Ph.D in sociology.
In her early 40s she returned to her first love of clay, as one of the initial students on the City Lit Ceramics Diploma course in 1989.

Her main body of work involves a process developed over many years, of printing onto both sides of raw clay slabs that have been coloured with stained slips. The vessels, illustrated with her own (sometimes digitally altered) photographs and often with maps indicating the source of the photos, are hand built from the printed slabs, lightly glazed, and fired in an electric kiln to 1240 C.
More recently she has also used decals on the fired surface, allowing for finer detail of imagery.

Annabel has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Her work is included in the collections of the Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent and the Geffrye Museum, Hackney, London.
She works from a studio in Bethnal Green, London.