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Kara Pryor has playing with clay for over 25 years. She received her Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Ceramics at the Northern Beaches TAFE in 2015. Kara continues to attend TAFE’S open studios where she produces her characters, teapots and functional ware for exhibitions and competitions throughout the year.

"I am influenced greatly by fantasy art and characters. I like to give each one of my pieces a soul; the eyes in some or colour in others to achieve this. I want people to feel something from my pieces, to take them back to a place in their childhood, where they were free to experiment in art with no limitations and no rules. I love colour, especially purple, dogs, dragons, teapots, characters and everything quirky."

Originally a hand builder, Kara now combines throwing with her hand building to create detailed characters. She specialises in dogs, dragons, functional and non functional teapots and with a love of design creates functional thrown objects as a means of sgraffitto’ing or painting on them.

Kara exhibits her ceramics regularly, and has won many art prizes for her quirky teapots and non-functional ceramics.