Collection: Alison Milner

Alison describes herself as a designer of ‘2D for 3D’. Whilst working in many different materials, her preference is for the sustainable and natural, for example: clay, wood, paper, glass and enamel. Her aesthetic is clean and clear – reducing, simplifying and uncovering underlying patterns. She likes to inject gentle humour, visual poetry, narrative and a sense of place into her work.

Alison has been designing her coaster tiles for over ten years. They are mostly organised in interchangeable sets of six images and are sometimes photographic and sometimes illustrational. The images usually evolve as offshoots of her other projects. She works with a printer who prints her images on water-slide decals using ceramic pigments, which Alison then applies to the tiles or brooches and they are fired in a kiln where the image bonds permanently with the glaze.