Born to British parents in rural Lions Bay on the Pacific coast of Canada, the ceramicist Andrea Copp is united with the sea and the forest, the places where she swam and hiked in childhood. Her gold-prospector mother later took her through the green English Cotswold hills, LA, and to great learning in Africa where she shared a home with monkeys and chimpanzees.

More recently, she returned to live and create among the treasures where she took her first breath, between the fresh torrents and the salty waves, in a cottage nestled in lush forest by the sea — where she says “I fly, and am earthed.”

Andrea Copp adds:

I am the Vessel — and I create vessels.

Vessels carry; they cross oceans and continents; they inspire loyalty — and they are inseparable from the names of women. In these and other ways, my journey and my work are one.