For some time, having a love of the outdoors, a great deal of Julie’s work has focused on the sea and the local coastline around Eastbourne. Memories of frequent visits to the beach, and the meditative nature of the sea, generate an emotional response within her that is transformed into beautiful vessels and wall mounted pieces using driftwood, beach shingle, and other found objects. Her way of working is always to focus on a single piece at a time, making each one a separate and discrete work of art; She doesn’t use moulds or ‘production’ techniques in any of her work. Essentially she is interested in clay as an art form, rather than for its capacity to produce functional items, so the work is primarily decorative.

Anthony McIntosh is an eclectic artist. Now working primarily in fused glass and ceramics, he is also a painter and, in addition, has used textiles, photography, printmaking, video, and various digital media in his work. His PhD studies, along with a fascination with the artefacts of cultural memory, and ‘sense of place’, rekindled his interest in the object, and he continues to explore these themes through glass and ceramics, creating both vessels and wall-based pieces. His creative process is always led by a strong internal narrative and his artworks reflect this; frequently being inspired by memories of specific places he loves to visit and personal experiences. In addition to his larger scale work however, he also makes smaller decorative objects for the home and garden.

Julie Snowball is a Bexhill based ceramicist and Anthony McIntosh is a ceramicist and glass artist based in Eastbourne. They exhibit widely in the Sussex and Kent areas, both individually, and as Snowball and McIntosh Ceramics and Glass. They also offer workshops at their respective home studios. In 2022 / 2023 they were artists in residence at The Beachy Head Story; the wonderful museum sitting on the top of the cliffs at that iconic site.