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Kyoko is influenced in her work by forms found in the natural world. The shapes she creates are like eggs and seeds, which are created organically to protect life from the elements (air and water), or like pebbles which are shaped by those same elements, through the forces of erosion...
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 Paul has specialised in painting watercolours for the last fifteen years and his inspiration is drawn from strong tones and contrast found within the landscape. An avid walker and mountaineer, he is constantly recording the effects of light and shade within his native British Isles...
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 Kaori grew up in a family who traded in pottery in Kyoto, Japan a city renowned for its ceramics. From a young age, then, she was surrounded by the simple, elegant forms of Japanese tableware.
Following her studies in Kyoto and the RCA in London she has exhibited frequently in London and Japan...
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 In 2000, after completing a degree in ceramics at the University of the West of England, he moved to Devon to embark upon an apprenticeship at Dartington Pottery. For the next five years he worked in several ceramics studios across the country gradually honing his making skills...
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 Jo's complex ceramic structures are constructed from individual hand formed pieces, which are joined together to complete the finished sculpture. Influences include large decorative expanses such as plaster ceilings, carved stone facades and wrought iron gates, in particular the drama created by light & shade with the depth of surface...
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 Since becoming a professional artist in 1988, Jonathan has concentrated on trying to capture the impact light and weather can have on cityscapes and landscapes and the way they can transform a scene, using watercolours and pastels.
He is always keen to convey mood in his paintings and likes to use a full range of tones to create strong, atmospheric pictures.
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 Sam has a pottery in Westhampton, Massachusetts. He makes woodfired stoneware pottery which is functional and decorative.
Sam makes everything on a Leach or treadle style wheel. He particularly likes to throw pots and then alter them, using a knife to cut facets or a paddle to change the form...
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 Mark-making, scratching, scraping, layering, re-forming: these are the processes which I use throughout a piece of work. This method of working often takes me a long way from the original inspiration and intention. I work intuitively and let the painting lead me to a point at which I consider it complete...
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 Contemporary jewellery inspired by the little botanical treasures found while walking through woodlands and forests
Forever taking note of her rural surroundings and all its tiny charms, Elizabeth Terzza’s jewellery is synchronised with the seasons; portraying nature’s renewable ephemera throughout her collections...
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 "My current practice explores
the notion of perceived
reality. I am interested in
the multiple identities that
exist in things and how
folklore, religion and
superstition in conjunction
with social experience have
helped to form these.
Imagination and its ability to
transform the ordinary into
the extraordinary is of
primary concern to my work."
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 Yo was born in Tokyo and after a degree in English Language in Japan she came over to Britain and started a 3D design course at the Kent Institute of Art and Design.
During her introductory course, she was hooked on ceramics and decided to take a BA in Ceramics. She also started assisting Lisa Hammond whilst at college and carried on as a full-time apprentice with her after obtaining an MA.
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 Natasha says
"I have been inspired by the degeneration of the treasures that have been discovered in collections like the Staffordshire hoard. The worn and corroded metals have once been treasures cherished by their owners. They have been lost and buried for hundreds of years being eaten away and rotting, waiting to be loved again...
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I create a contemporary interpretation of the traditional craft of throwing.
My work has developed from the natural world, mainly floral forms. I have taken inspiration from closed buds and the way they relate when in clusters. My focus has also been on the changing relationship they have as they develop...
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 Manipulating soft clay on a revolving wheel and feeling the material respond to the merest touch is like setting out on an exciting journey for me. The dialogue that goes on between the maker and the clay is carried out through the use of the pots. You pour, you eat, you store, you serve and you drink from them, and sometimes you just contemplate them...
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