DARIA COLERIDGE

Daria Coleridge (b. Paris 1962).  Her father Douglas Forsythe Kelly, was the celebrated American industrialist designer, and her Italian creative mother meant that culture and art was at the forefront of her upbringing. Her early years were spent working for the interior designer Dennis Lennon with projects such as the Ritz and QE11.  

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Inspiration over the years has come from many artists including Giambologna, Boccioni, Hepworth and Magdalena Odundo. 

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Having spent many years doing portrait heads in bronze,  Daria trained as a sculptor at Heatherley School of Fine Art 2001-3, and later completed her MA in Ceramics and Glass at the RCA 2019-22. 

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Capturing movement with light and space, colour and asymmetrical form,  are the essence of her ethos, working in different types of clay (porcelain paperclay and GT structural clay) to create unique pieces.  Pouring specialist glazes, often in differing coloured layers,  on a turntable gives the creations a natural organic feel,  with the alchemy in the kiln transforming the piece with reflective blues and greens, reflecting water and sky, hot reds and pinks, and dark blues turning into shades of black. 

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The works are inspired by her love of movement and dance and the abstraction of the natural world thus creating a body of intertwining shapes, ethereal open forms.  

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Darias’s work has been shown internationally and with the Marie Jose Gallery, House of Pots, Chelsea Arts Society and Secret Ceramics Christie’s London.  Her work is in many private and corporate homes, including City offices and Livery Companies.

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Publications: Gertrude Gibbons, Capturing Movement, Daria Coleridge’s Ceramic Sculptures, Soanyway online, May 2025 https://www.soanywaymagazine.org/post/daria-coleridge-ceramic-sculptures