Pippin Drysdale(1943- ) is an internationally renowned potter based in Fremantle, Western Australia. She was born in Melbourne but spent her childhood in Perth and returned there to live in 1972. She came late to potting, graduating from the Perth Technical College in 1982 and then obtaining a Bachelor of Arts from the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT) in 1986. At WAIT (now Curtin University of Technology) she became interested in design and experimented with painting onto clay slabs. Later she returned to the bowl shape as the form through which she could best explore the use of resist techniques and coloured lines and planes to evoke a sense of landscape. Drysdale has her own website and continues to explore and refine new ideas in her Tanami Desert Traces series with the help of collaborator Warwick Palmeteer who throws pots to her design. Her work is incised with her full name, details of the series and date.