 John M Beusmans set up CARN POTTERY in an Old Cornish Chapel in the early 1970s. He was born in Hampshire and moved to Cornwall with his parents who ran a retail pottery shop. He studied throwing at Redruth Art College.
John's pottery is distinctive. His pieces vary tremendously in shape, size and nature, but are always instantly recognizable...
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 Chris's personal involvement with farming and the landscape give him a special empathy with his native Britain...
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 Sheila studied pottery and lithography at Hornsey School of Art. In 1955 she married fellow potter Michael Casson. Intially they worked in central London and then moved to Prestwood, where the majority of the work was undecorated domestic ware.
In 1977 they moved to Wobage Farm in Herefordshire, creating studios and workshops...
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Matthew Chambers’ initial ceramic training was acquired with Philip Wood in Frome, Somerset in the six years up to1999. He then went on to Bath Spa University where he obtained a First Class Honours Degree in 2002 and an MA from the RCA in London in 2004...
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 I graduated from Harrow in 1995 with a degree in Workshop Ceramics. In 2000 I gained an MA in Applied Arts from the North Wales School of Art and Design in Wrexham (now Glyndwr University) where I currently work as a Demonstrator in Appled Arts. I am based in Prestatyn, North Wales, where I have a small workshop and wood-kiln...
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 Tania says "I graduated from Plymouth Art College in 2010 and I now produce ceramics from my home workshop in Cornwall, where the surrounding beaches and rivers influence my work. I aspire to capture characteristics of an environment in an object connecting with aspects of the beach, the sea, the sky, rock pools, rivers and pebbles...
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Wimbledon School of Art
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see”
Rene Magritte
There is an element of hoodwinking to my paintings. Perspectives are askew and sometimes multiple viewpoints fold into a space that creates an image at once familiar but estranged from reality and laws of physics...
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 Salt glaze firings continue to fascinate me, with the search to find a balance between the predictable and the unexpected. The effects of a rich orange peel surface swept aside by a soft satin sheen are the gifts of the kiln. Using a variety of techniques the application of both colour and texture are inspired by the natural world; the seasons, landscapes and sea shores...
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 Inspired by the beauty of the outdoors Jenny makes individual and lasting furniture with a sculptural quality, designed to add an individual statement to your home or garden. Jenny began working with metal in 2003 and is one of only a handful of women who has a degree in Artist Blacksmithing.
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 Harriet graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Theology in 1981 and then had the good fortune to become an apprentice to Alan Caiger Smith at Aldermaston Pottery. Here she learnt to throw, to glaze and to decorate pots in the tin-glazed earthenware tradition...
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 Howard Coles is an increasingly acclaimed contemporary artist, producing contemporary landscape paintings and working in the UK. He has exhibited throughout the UK and worldwide, with his work held by national collections in Singapore and Malaysia. He was recently elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy...
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 Megan explores the interaction between thrown and hand built constructions and the process of reduction firing. She is fascinated by the ever-changing landscape sculpted by the elements, particularly beside the sea. She captures some of this beauty through surface texture and glazes...
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 Nic has now been using clay for almost 30 years. His first encounters with woodfiring began because he had no other way to fire his work. In his late teens and early twenties he began building kilns and wheels and sourcing his own clay from the local river banks. He experimented with raku, sawdust firings and saltglazing...
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 The coast line, to the North of Lancaster is very special with gorgeous colourful beaches, and wonderful sunsets. This together with the slate found in the south Lakes has been my inspiration for colour.
I paint with a mixture of porcelain slip, recycled nylon fibre and newsprint, flax fibre and an assortment of oxides and stains...
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 After being awarded First Class Honours in Ceramics from Wolverhampton University, Jennifer taught in several departments in the Faculty of Art and Design, Birmingham City University and was appointed Senior Lecturer in the School of Industrial Ceramics where she taught until 1995.
From 1977 onwards she has always had a studio where she has developed her work...
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 Chris has a very distinctive style, working with recycled Dartington glass to produce beautiful and unique hand-blown items of the highest quality.
He has served apprenticeships with many talented glass makers including Sam Herman, giving him the basis to be the consummate artist he is today.
His sculptural perfume bottles in stunning colours take the form to beyond the classical.
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 Alyson creates sculptural and functional pieces that are a fusion of hand-built and wheel-thrown techniques with a meeting point of texture and contrast that enhance the form and structure.
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 Prue trained as a painter, but preferred the more earth-bound activity of making objects for use. Her work celebrates friendship and the sharing simple pleasures that is implied by large dishes for food.
After art-school she spent twenty years dealing in 18th and 19th century drawings...
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 ART AT NATURE’S EDGE
Richard hopes to entice you to venture into the dreamlike spaces he has created in his intense paintings and prints, inspired by sunlit groves and misty mornings and the sparkle of water His work has been described as ethereal, generous, beautiful and evocative...
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"I gained my degree in Fine Art from Manchester College of Art in 1971. My specialism was Fine Art ( Painting and
Print-Making )... my inspiration textures and mark making.
I came to clay almost by chance after leaving college...it's versatility a constant source of exploration and experimentation, and have been totally absorbed with the material ever since...
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My inspiration is drawn from the intricate shapes and textures I observe in the environment. I am attracted to patterns that repeat themselves naturally on large and small scales and the configurations within objects that have been transformed by time and place. The past is written into the surface like script...
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 Ian gets inspiration for his atmospheric pictures from the wonderful landscapes and seascapes of the British Isles .
He started painting in watercolour in 1993 after a long career in aviation. Though entirely self-taught, his style has been greatly influenced by the works of Seago, Wesson, Fletcher-Watson and Yardley...
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There are two main areas of her current work. Using the vessel form she fragments it and combines the organic lines and smoke firing process to create non-functional vessels. By reuniting the fragments of my vessels to complete the form once more, she is able to create a new language within her work.
Her sculptures place emphasis on balance, volume and shadow...
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Eddie trained at the then Bath Academy of Art between 1973 and 1976.
In 1979 he established a workshop at Middle Rigg with his wife Margaret where they have worked ever since. He has been making ceramics for nearly all his working life, perfecting technique and accumulating a repertoire of responses that he can call upon as the need arises...
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 Currently I like to take a very energetic approach to making my work, whilst venturing to instil a
natural calmness into each piece.
I endeavour to create a harmony between extreme materials, employing rough, dark, gritty clay combined with smooth creamy porcelain slip.
The most simple of forms sometimes reveal new depths with every viewing.’
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