Anna-Marie Magson originally studied Fine Art Painting at Liverpool College of Art, however, when the opportunity to work in a pottery studio arose, she began to explore her love of surface decoration and textured pattern on clay tiles. Ultimately, this led to adapting her ideas to hand-built ceramic vessels; pots are hand-built using stoneware slabs and layers of coloured slips. The flattened surface of the vessels provide a canvas on which to add fine detail through wax resist and sgraffito. Inspiration is found in the world around her, such as ancient structures, their weathered surface and the evidence of human mark making.