Nel Faulkner studied 3D Design in London, at Chelsea Art School. She worked in Paris designiing shops and furntiure for the fasion houses Valentino and Ines de la Fressange, before completiing a second degree in Ceramics in her late twenties.
Since then she has developed a distinctive style of her own. Softly thrown shapes, printed patterns, carved additions and a restricted palette of Irish Green and Cobalt Blue and White all define her work.
She has worked alongside Sandy Brown and spent time with Betty Woodman in her studio in New York. Their exuberant large-scale pieces have had a strong influence on her approach. In 2018 she visited Japan where she found fresh inspiration in the stylised graphic conventions often seen in Japanese art and the uniquely free, sprited apporach the Japanese bring to making with clay. In 2019 she was selected by Paul Smith to exhibit her work in their flagship store on Albemarle Street W1. In 2021 she joined the New Craftsmen Gallery making two collections for their gallery in Mayfair and in 2024 she showed with alongside Grayson Perry with Lyndsay Ingram Gallery at the London Original Print Fair.
Nel lives and works in Dorset.
