'There’s something other-worldly about Leora Honeyman’s work – many of her glass sculptures bloat outwards into biomorphic or alien-like forms, while her ceramic pieces often appear bubbled, craggy or dripping, as if they’ve been extracted from the surfaces of other planets. So it comes as a surprise when the Sussex-based artist says that she regularly draws inspiration from a far more earthly setting: the garden of her childhood home in Zimbabwe. ‘The garden is where I was allowed free reign; it had all sorts of reptiles, and phenomenal insects and flowers,’ she says. ‘I have an early memory of staring at iridescent impatiens flowers trying to figure out what colours were actually there’.'
by Natasha Levy
Photography by Nick Ballon