Allegra developed her ceramics through adult education in Hammersmith
and Fulham. She also benefited greatly from some one-to-one tuition from Seth Cardew at
Wenford Bridge.
Her work is informed by the enduring resonance of ancient forms. She
plays with the paradoxes inherent in clay, combining the primitive
with the modern, the utilitarian with the sculptural, embedding the
universality of its language in contained generosity. She often
combines regular wheel-thrown forms with sculptural decoration to
suggest latent life, as if the clay is trapping the creature inside
whose shape is implied in the bulge of a pot's belly or the spine of
its handle.