 A kinship with nature is visible in JILL FANSHAWE KATO’s unusual ceramics.
To Jill birds are the embodiment of freedom. Not surprising therefore that, following a degree in Painting at Chelsea and Pottery in Japan, everything she makes in clay reveals this affinity...
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 "My pieces are slip-cast or press moulded white earthenware with hand painted 'tin-glaze' decoration. In this technique you paint on top of the glaze prior to firing.
Where my work differs from traditional Majolica is in the way I use it as a medium for painting in its own right...
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 Ceramic work is hand thrown using either earthenware or porcelain clays, some pieces are formed using a selection of parts, which are then assembled by hand and fired up to temperatures of around 1100 degrees for earthenware and 1300 degrees for porcelain. My work attempts to create parallels between contemporary Fine Art and Craft practices...
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 Walter Keeler's pottery is mainly domestic and functional in salt glazed stoneware or, more rarely, earthenware. He trained at the Harrow School of Art, studying under Victor Margrie and Michael Casson, and later returned there to teach. Walter says"The pottery tradition is at the heart of all my work. Pottery for use has been central to all settled human communities...
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 Christy Keeney started his career at art school in Donegal.
Although drawn more towards fine art, he was encouraged to continue working in clay. Whilst developing his throwing skills he became more interested in sculpture.
Christy graduated from The Royal College of Art in 1988 and started working from studios in London...
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 My work consists of vibrantly coloured, three-plate etchings and painterly monotypes, which take the landscape for inspiration. Recently, however, my work has become more abstract, as I simplify shapes and find patterns within the landscape. Using three metal plates for each print is labour intensive, technically difficult, and requires a great deal of foresight...
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Creative Woodturner of international renown Ray has loved making things from wood throughout his life; his first recollections are from around the age of seven. Whittling, carving and fretwork were all interests.
He has been a member of the Worcestershire Guild of Designer Craftsmen since 1973.
He has been turning wood for over forty years...
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Sun Kim is Korean. She is focused on functional wares; the throwing wheel is the major tool she uses to produce them. She is intrigued by the quality of porcelain, which is soft, warm, responsive to her touch and ‘playful to her imagination’ The engineering process of making pots is one of the aspects that excites, challenges and arouses her curiosity...
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 One of the UK’s most prominent and successful artists, Anita is BOTH a painter and a printmaker and her works which depict her family life have received broad acclaim.
"I want to celebrate the small moments we all tend to overlook. They're the really important things.....
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 John Knapp-Fisher was born in 1931. Following studies in Graphic Design at Maidstone College of Art from 1949, John worked in exhibition design and later for the theatre as a designer and scenic artist. In 1958, while based in London, he began to concentrate on painting and exhibiting...
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 I am concentrating on simple forms, trying to integrate balance and tension, stillness and movement, expansion and the containment of volume.
All pieces are hand built and some are burnished to achieve a tactile surface. The distinctive patterning which complements these burnished forms is achieved in a carefully organized secondary smoke firing...
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 Shape and construction of the vessel form are explored allowing for elements to be exaggerated or understated, such as handles and spouts.
Pieces are hand-built using predominantly a white earthenware clay body and layers of pattern and decoration are built up through the use of a number of techniques and multiple firings...
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