 "I work at the potter’s wheel, specialising in large bowls and one off pieces I also make slab rolled work including wall hangings and square dishes.
My work I decorated with a range of oriental glazes, these are applied quickly by dipping and pouring in different combinations which fuse together in the heat of the kiln...
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Jennifer graduated from Cardiff in 1994. She has a studio near Rhayader in mid Wales where she pots on a kickwheel, making slip-decorated, useable earthenware.
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Morgen graduated from the Grays School of Art Aberdeen in 1983 and The Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1984 with an MA in Ceramics. She lives and works in South Wales. She is a Fellow of The Craft Potters Association. Morgen makes a wide range of domestic tableware which is inspired by the food it is intended for, from tea cabaret sets to spaghetti jars.
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Born in Yorkshire, Sam Hall has spent nearly two decades living and working in St.Ives. Sam's work has been seen by some as bridging the art/craft divide and frankly these painterly, beautifully crafted pots would sit equally well in a fine art context.
Sam trained at Harrogate College of Art and Design between 1985/87 and then Loughborough College of Art and Design until1990...
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 Janet Hamer’s birds are first and foremost sculptures made in ceramics. There is excitement in the essentialised shapes and the use of colour.
Hollow vessels are transformed by simple additions into evocations of geese, ducks and grebes. A subject is always based on a particular species, observing the shape evolved for a lifestyle, the patterns and colours...
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 Current Work
Raw-fired saltglazed stoneware pots, thrown and hand-built, for everyday use and for ornament.
When salt is thrown into a hot kiln the sodium vapour comes into contact with the particles of silica on the surface of the clay pots and melts them, forming a glaze i.e. the skin of the pot itself becomes the glaze...
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 For more than 30 years I have been making vapour glaze pots, for many years concentrating on producing functional high temperature soda glaze pots for the preparation, cooking and serving of food in the broadest sense of the word.
Raw glazing using slip and a pallet of firing schedules gives the work its rich colour and texture...
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 John is essentially a landscape artist;
He wanders from Worcestershire scenes to Africa and the Middle East in search of varied subjects.
The Rivers Severn, the Usk and the Wye are frequently depicted in his work but of late, he has been moving to more abstract responses to rivers and estuaries...
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 Claire studied fine art and drawing between 1985 and 1992 in Taunton, Oxford, London and Prague.
Since then she has had many solo exhibitions and been part of larger group events...
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 Nic trained at The Leach Pottery in St Ives, under Janet Leach and his work follows ‘The Leach Tradition’. It draws influences from Japanese ceramics, medieval pottery and the Cornish mining landscape in which he now works...
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 Raewyn’s inspirations come from many sources, the most predominant being a love of architecture, history and a less conscious, but no less important fascination for tidal landscapes. Having grown up by the sea in New Zealand and having lived half her life in London, these locations come together in her work...
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 Ros is a Member of the Royal Ulster Academy and The Pastel Society of Ireland.
Impressions from a Donegal childhood have enabled Ros Harvey to capture the vivid and rugged elements of the Inishowen landscape, and is the essential focus of this artist. She has brought the primary elements earth, wind, fire and water into her compositions...
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As a studio ceramist, Aase sees herself responsible for the whole ceramic process going from wedging the clay to taking the finished pot out of the kiln.
Shapes and structures are of great importance. Her main interest is in the choice of firing and especially the related effects and changes each method applies to her pots...
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Peter Hayes' ceramics lead an unusually adventurous life before they reach the gallery. Not only are they subjected to the hazards of raku firing, involving huge shocks in temperature and thick, blackening smoke, but they are submerged in a flowing river for months at a time. Hayes' studio is an old Toll house on a bridge over the Avon...
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 Painter and Mixed Media Artist.
"For many years I painted landscapes in the traditional manner, mainly using oils.
Since I retired from my work as a Social Worker I have enjoyed more time to explore other forms of expression...
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Inspired by the mountaineous landscape of her home country Austria and constructed from soft slabs of clay, Regina Heinz’s pieces display an organic and sensual quality. Reminiscent both of the intimacy of a body and the flowing lines of a landscape, her work, equally, can be seen as purly abstract - dealing with form, volume, line and colour...
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 Sam Hewitt studied visual and performing art at Brighton University and fine art foundation at Stourbridge College. Prior to that, a Rudolph Steiner primary education and evening classes in figure drawing from former Goldsmiths lecturer Sam Rabin, have shaped his approach to colour and the human form...
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 The ceramic vessels that John Higgins makes refer most often to architecture, archaeology and everyday objects. A format is decided, but room is always allowed for spontaneous and expressive handling of the medium...
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 The elements and evolved forms in nature are the principle influences of my ceramic sculpture. The representation of the organic form evokes ideas of the natural cycle of life and my latest work reflects this.
My use of local brick clay continues. It is a material which has a texture and colour that I like to use without any excessive decoration...
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 Eric Hill Spot Collector's Edition Prints
Eric Hill was born in Holloway, North London in 1927. As a graphic designer he was working on a novelty advertising mailer with flaps to lift up. The flaps made his two-year-old son laugh, so Eric created a lift-the-flap book especially for him about a mischievous puppy called Spot...
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 Akiko produces domestic ware for everyday use. She bases her designs on Japanese aesthetics of relativity, the beauty of imperfection, irregularity, spontaneity, and impurity. It is a white slipware depiction of a woman who is wearing white make-up. It is called Kohiki (powder blown) ware...
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 My current ceramic work reflects an investigation into several areas of interest and an attempt to unify solutions to various visual problems. One interest is in the vessel as an abstract sculptural form and its many associations, both literal and metaphoric. Another is pattern and color and how a collection of abstract elements can create various feelings or impressions...
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 I produce large one-off, sculptural ceramics, handbuilt entirely by coiling clay. These ceramics are suitable for garden, courtyard or conservatory, as well as interior display.
The work is not functional, but is often related to the traditional vessel shape. Some work, however, explores form and line; never totally abstract, but derived and refined from natural objects...
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 Artist’s statement
I enjoy using layers of texture, line and colour to create rich, evocative surfaces on simple thrown or hand-built stoneware forms. Inspiration can come from anywhere, from tyre tracks in snow to nerve transmission diagrams, from lichens growing on logs to satellite imagery...
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 Thomas’s fascination with the form and texture of wood is evident in his work; replicating wood is not his goal, it is the starting point that takes him from the wood turning lathe to the plaster cast, to hand building and back to the lathe in an association of ideas that informs and educates as it evolves...
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 Dean obtained a B.A.(hons) 3D Glass Design at Stourbridge College of Art and Design where he trained for three years.
and then The International Glass Centre, Dudley College
where he studied Techniques of hand making & decorating glassunder master glassmaker Malcolm Andrews -
"I work with a magical material called glass...
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 "My jewellery is inspired by origami and geometric structures, as well as the textures and surfaces found in nature. I am particularly interested in eroded surfaces and textures, which I explore through the processes in my work...
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 Crystalline glazing is time consuming & expensive to produce. There can be many failures, but when all goes well the effects are stunning.
All of my pots are hand thrown in porcelain, one of the more difficult clays to throw, especially large pots. Crystalline glaze is mixed using a variety of ingredients, some measured in minute amounts...
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 In 2003 Ashley graduated from the Royal College of Art, having taken time out from his career as a maker and lecturer to study for a Masters degree. On the face of it, this decision could be seen as something of an indulgence, but in fact the decision to re-enter education as a mature student demanded a good deal of courage...
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 Sheena trained at Liverpool College of Art. She has been drawing archaeological artefacts for many years and has worked as an archaeological illustrator in York, England, in Pompeii, Italy and Belize, Central America where she lived in 20 years She has now returned to England.
Her art is precise and detailed when needed for illustration and her paintings aim to be tranquil and serene...
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 "My work concentrates on form and texture. I make pieces which are simple yet have a softness, a freedom and a sculptural quality.
I work in porcelain, for its innate beauty and because its smoothness allows the use of subtle textures. The pieces are altered to both exploit and escape the soft cylinders and circles imposed by the wheel.
I'm often asked about sources of inspiration....
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 has been active in the market place for six years, and now has a reputation as one of the top selling artists in the UK, providing work for Harrods and John Lewis, as well as for galleries abroad - from the USA to New Zealand. She also provides paintings for TV programs and advertisements.
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Shirley Hughes is one of the most highly-respected children’s authors and illustrators working today.
She has written over seventy books, including Dogger and the Alfie series, and illustrated many more by other writers. She has been published across the world and generations of children have grown up enthralled and comforted by her work.
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Amelia's oil paintings strive to relay the atmosphere and emotion of the landscape through a personal and momentary experience. They contain the ideas of capturing the sublime and those immediate feelings of drama in a continuously changing landscape, which she feels are inexplicable through words and drives her to explore and express these emotions through the media of paint and line...
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