 Unique Gallery, Sculpture Trail and Café
on the outskirts of Worcester
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 Billy Adams is a potter whose work deals with exploring ad experimenting with aspects of landscape. He works within the vessel format, combining textures and colours to give the viewer an intimate insight into his private view of ceramics...
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 All my pots are thrown on a potter’s wheel in the first place. Some of these pots I cut and alter to put them together in different shapes. Using this old technique I create square, rectangular or triangular forms. I work with clays from Germany and French Grès. I often mix these clays adding porcelain grog. Apart from stoneware I also work with porcelain...
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 “Since the first moment I worked with hot glass I knew I had found the medium I would use for the rest of my career. I love using glass, where the finished piece is a solid form but creates the sensation of movement and grace.”
Stuart specialises in hot studio glass...
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 LESLEY ALLEN DRING
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
BA (Hons) Ceramics and Glass
"Sand cast glass is a beautiful means to create a three dimensional picture with texture and light. In some pieces I use wire, metals or minerals to create the picture. In others, I simply polish away the high areas to expose unexpected patterns and textures.
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 “My current practices are based on thrown, functional slip wares such as cheese and service platters, bowls, jugs and mugs. I aim to achieve simple, practical, thoughtful pots which are comfortable in handling and tactile in nature to encourage everyday use...
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 Member of Worcestershire Guild of Designer Craftsmen.
Martin is one of Britain’s leading glassmakers. His work is known for its high quality, attention to fine detail, innovative surface treatments and design ideas.
Each piece is designed, handmade and signed by Martin using the finest Crystal glass. As each item is made individually no two items are ever identical...
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 Tim Andrews has gained an International reputation for his distinctive smoke-fired and raku ceramics. He makes individual Raku work. Black and White with linear decoration or burnished muted coloured slips. His pieces have been acquired for both public and private collections and are exhibited widely across the UK and abroad. He is a Fellow of the C.P...
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 Peter Archer - Woodturner
The surface of Peters bowls are adjusted either to emphasise the particular qualities of a piece of wood or to deliberately react against those qualities. The shape and grain of the bowl influences the way any modifications are made to it.
Peter tends to use temperate hardwoods, mainly ash and sycamore...
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 Jane trained in textiles and her love of pattern and colour has remained, manifesting themselves now, in her paintings.
Jane’s main subject matter and inspiration are still life and landscape, both of which give ample opportunity to explore colour and pattern...
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 Thelma studied illustration for three years at the Laird School of Art, Birkenhead.
She worked in advertising both at Liverpool and Manchester, before going freelance, illustrating children's books and magazines.
She studied Drawing and Painting for four years at Glasgow School of Art and then undertook Post graduate Teacher Training, followed by four more years teaching Art in Scotland....
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 Duncan Ayscough is a Fellow of the CPA, a Professional Member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen and is on the Craft Council’s selected index of makers. He is Senior Lecturer in Ceramics at the University of Wales College, Cardiff.
Duncan Ayscough’s pots appear to embrace both ancient pottery forms and strong contemporary design...
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Carole Baker ARBSA was born in 1965 in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
Associate Member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Carole regularly exhibits there and in gallery shows and open exhibitions throughout the UK.
In September 2004, she was selected as finalist in the ‘New Artist’ competition and her work showcased at the Autumn Fair at the NEC, Birmingham...
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 Clint cannot remember a time when he was not drawing. His first pictures were of crocodiles with toothy grins so it could be seen from an early age where an artistic career would take him.
Where’s he from?
When he was at school in Billericay he was interested in natural history, fishing, pottery, acting and - to his horror now - collecting birds eggs and butterflies...
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 Heather established her studio in the early eighties where whe worked designing and developing her range of ceramics.
She is a member of the Worcestershire Guild of Designer Craftsmen.
"I like exploring the versatility of clay, the different textures and forms that can be created by hand building and by throwing. I use stoneware clay firing my work under reduction in a gas kiln".
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 Ceramics has been a family tradition spanning four generations at least. The earliest records show a pottery at Hoo in Kent in 1834 where even the street was named after my forbears. Each generation has produced their own particular style of work and responded to the changing needs of society...
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 Hayne says "
"The unintended result, often misread as a mistake and so dismissed, is one of the most fertile sources of new ideas. The trick is not to fool with clay's inherent desire to be expressive.
Pay attention to the clay, not only for the sake of each piece, but because the clay will offer - or impose - its own suggestions of new forms and ways to work...
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 I produce sculptural forms comprising of multiple elements that address the relationship between the formal qualities of line, scale, shape, material, colour and texture. This body of work is influenced by architecture and the minimalist approach to form. I am particularly inspired by Modernist structures, with their clean sharp lines, simplicity of form and innovative use of materials...
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 Peter communicates his creative thoughts through a variety of mediums including Ceramics, Stone, Bronze, Iron and Glass. Working in different mediums Peter has combined process, materials and concept, through ceramics Peter has done this with his ceramics for many years which is reflected by his international success...
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 Wall ceramics
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"I was born in Israel and having completed a BA in History of Art and English Literature at the Hebrew University, came to England to study ceramics. I became deeply interested in functional domestic ware during the HND Ceramic Design course at Harrow College. For many years I have been making tableware for every day use...
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 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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 Jane has painted since she was a child but returned to college in 2003 to learn something new and fell in love with glass from the start. She worked with glass to create a different kind of painting by fusing hand-blown glass to make rich, glossy, tactile images, which can then be framed, or smaller pieces, worn as jewellery...
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 Pascale was born in Tulle (Correze) France and always loved drawing and painting even as a child, on anything and anywhere, paper, stones, walls and doors.
Pascale studied Architecture in Clemont-Ferrand and joined the evening classes at Les Beaux Arts where she used charcoal and sanguines in her drawings...
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 PETRA BITTL - Germany
Petra is one of Germany's leading ceramicists. Her work demonstrates her fine art origins - she treats her work very much as painting and drawing but using clay as her medium....her canvas, her paper and the sculptural ceramic works that she produces are quite unique.
She undertook her initial training in ceramics at the vocational school in Landshut, Germany...
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 Cambridge based potter Matthew Blakely, graduated from Southampton University with a BSc in Psychology in 1984. BY 1993 he had acquired a Diploma in Ceramics (State Medal) Distinction from the National Art School East Sydney TAFE in Sydney, Australia...
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 Working in stoneware both at home locally and here at Bevere, Dave makes a range of wheel thrown pots and individual pieces.
They are reduction fired in a gas kiln. Using both modern and traditional wood ash and “Jun” glazes Dave aims to make traditional pots with a modern feel.
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As a mature student, Joy Bosworth studied Ceramics at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, now the University of Wolverhampton, where she gained First Class Honours in 1987. Since that time, she has worked as a Technician/Demonstrator and then as a Teacher on Foundation Courses at a number of colleges. She was later to become a Part Time Lecturer on BA courses at Birmingham University...
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 liz says
"The work I produce is hand made stoneware tableware intended for everyday use.
The main focus of my work is placed on function, form and surface; I am still exploring the perfect balance of function and form, possibly the reason for my passion for teapots.
The surfaces of my pots have developed over a long period of time...
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 Cheltenham-based Michael Brazier, a commercial officer at the Ministry of Defence. Michael’s work in oils typically includes landscapes, urban scenes and figures, and he finds inspiration in Worcestershire, Shropshire, Wales and the Marches as well as in cities, motorways and the sky.
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 She gained a place on a foundation degree to study applied arts at Plymouth College of Art and Design. Through her studies she encountered glass and her artistic practice moved away from ceramics.
During the first year she gained a place on a Master class at Northlands and felt that this was the turning point that enabled her to create glass past the blown form...
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 Trained in Illustration with a 1st class honours degree, at only 26 Antony has already splashed the creative world with his presence in both fine art and graphics.
He has had 3 solo exhibitions, displayed at Silverstone, Goodwood festival of Speed and featured at the young designers exhibition in London, as well as featuring in the worldwide magazine ‘Airbrush Art and Action’...
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 Ben says -
"My ceramic work is wheel thrown and altered using stoneware and porcelain clays. Forms seek to utilise and respond to the malleability of the material and work is altered and assembled while still wet. Current work includes bottles, jugs, vases, platters and bowls.
The work is wood fired to 1400 degrees centigrade in an anagama kiln, for three to five days...
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 Well known for her detailed paintings of animals in their natural habitat. Val works from sketches and photos taken in the wild and wildlife reserves.
She has concentrated her natural ability and love of the subject on British flora and fauna.
She works from nature when ever possible, spending time to watch and sketch in the wild, and at private breeding and rescue centres...
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 Dick Bruna (1927) is one of the few living Dutch artists to have achieved worldwide fame among young and old. He started drawing in 1940 and among the books he illustrated was the series entitled Zwarte Beertjes (Little Black Bears). Bruna has spent his later career developing his skills within the picture book genre, creating characters such as miffy...
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Liz Bryant creates sculptural figures, usually impressionistic in style. She concentrates mainly on the female form and over time the figures have developed into these current slender, elegant shapes, which she sees as contemplative and introspective.
After an initial biscuit firing the pieces are glazed and fired again in a raku kiln, a process which Liz finds exciting and stimulating. The...
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 Anita says"
I have been involved with many forms of creativity all my working life. Window dressing, exhibition display, internal design, calligraphy and quilling are just some of the things I enjoy. Currently, I am delighted to say that I'm exhibiting some of my individually designed arrangements at The Gallery at Bevere in the Stable Gallery.
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 "All my work is individually hand crafted, thrown on a wheel and each piece totally unique.
I draw upon ideas and sources from ancient world history to create works with a sense of preciousness, grandeur and flamboyance."
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Ambrose BURNE
Ambrose is an artist blacksmith producing contemporary designs in forged metal that display the patterns of growth, movement and progression found in natural forms.
He graduated in 2007 and his work was shown to great effect in the New Designers Show in London...
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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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Lyn was born in England but soon moved to Tanganyika, East Africa.
She spent her formative years there and at the age of 13 years moved to Hong Kong.
Being brought up in Africa and Asia and her extensive travels have greatly influenced her art...
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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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 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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 2007 Graduate in Ceramics
"I am interested in natural forces and the change and decay that they create. My work is spontaneous, so capturing freshness.
I work with thin slabs of porcelain clay mixed with fibre.
I enjoy the ambiguity of large industrial decaying vessels made from delicately thin precious porcelain...
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 Graduate potter
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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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 Emmanuel Cooper makes individual pots, mostly in porcelain, including bowls and jug forms. All fired to 1260 C in an electric kiln. Glazes tend to be bright and rich and include turquoise blues and greens, nickel pinks and blues, uranium yellow. Emmanuel has been making pots since 1965, he is Editor of Ceramic Review and author of many books on ceramics...
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 ART AT NATURE’S EDGE
Richard’s work has been described as ethereal, generous, beautiful and evocative. He doesn’t work from the landscape directly but uses the materials with joy and intensity to try and reveal the emotions one feels when surrounded by Nature...
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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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 Spain
May Criado Fernandez was born in Ponferrada, Leon in Spain.
Her work is essentially sculptural both free standing and wall - mounted. She often uses fragmented repeat human faces which are placed in a square, sphere or ball shape. These forms are often placed in yet another structure. She uses stoneware and porcelain clay which is sometimes mixed with other materials like paper or sand....
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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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 Very well known for his story telling and drawings.
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I like to make sculptures which suggest a mysterious function that is never explained. Does it really have a function? I try to engage viewers through humour and curiosity to create their own answers about the value and importance of the piece to them...
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 Louise has steadily gained a reputation for finely thrown white stoneware and porcelain, and made the techniques of incising and carving very much her own.
Stylised images of animals and plants are cut freehand into the leather-hard clay and, after biscuit firing, are inlaid with eggshell smooth glazes maturing at 1280°C...
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I use a variety of coloured and textured clays to create distinctive coiled pots which take their forms and surfaces from nature, with particular inspiration coming from beach stones and geological strata. By combining clays and layering slips, using a range of techniques, I am able to create dramatic effects without the use of glazes...
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 2009 Graduate Artist
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 "Through my work I want to highlight the preciousness of life and the rituals of food and drink with objects that are both special and tactile. I am attracted to porcelain as a material because of its whiteness and translucency, and because of the fluidity that throwing can give to it...
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 Kevin was born in 1954. He trained at Harrow School of art under Colin Pearson and Walter Keeler. Kevin spent much time in the United States between 1978 and 1991 working in various pottery related positions and filling in time between ceramic jobs as a truck driver...
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 British Studio potter
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Anita was trained as a window decorator. Now she creates stylish bespoke decorations for your table and around the home.
'Anita's Designs' are reknowned. Her designs have decorated many people's (some famous) homes and events
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 I was born in Norwich, UK in 1948. I studied pottery at Bath Academy and Harrow School of Art and set up my first studio in Gloucestershire, England in 1972. In 1979, I moved to France and established my home and workshop in a stone built farm house in the south of Brittany.
In my work, I try to combine form, texture, natural colour and the right amount of humour...
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 "I have spent many years as a painter and am married to a well established painter, John Whittall. I still paint but there has been a gradual seepage into another passion of mine, that of precious and semi precious metals and gems. It began a number of years ago when I first started to work with gold on both my frames and paintings...
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 I make porcelain which explores and extends the qualities associated with this beautiful material. I make functional pots which range in scale from fine delicate cups for tea or cider to large unexpectedly rugged slab dishes and plates.
The forms are either thrown or slab-built with surfaces which are pierced, stretched, carved and ribbed...
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 Bridget Drakeford has been designing and making pottery since 1977.
During the early years in Scotland she made domestic stoneware, but now works exclusively in porcelain using both reduction and oxidised firings.
She has been a prizewinner at the Mashiko Ceramics Competition in Japan, and at the World Ceramic Exposition in Korea...
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 Born in 1960
A diverse range of influences have informed the work of Françoise Dufayard. During the late 1970s Françoise studied ceramics at the Ateliers de Fontblanche in Vitrolles, then she travelled in Asia (1981-1982).
From 1983-1987 she worked for Gustave TIFFOCHE and Suzy ATKINS...
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 Nick says
"Over the last eighteen months I have been developing my technique as a painter through work with abstract landscapes. There is an inescapable soft element to landscape painting that exists traditionally and the juxtaposition and contradiction between the hard lines and the subtly of landscape is my unique contemporary take on the art form...
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 Dangerous Dolls and Dogs combine individually dyed silk velvet with mass- produced printed tin, electrical wire and components. Through the use of these techniques and materials, they explore contradictions and ambiguities; male/ female; human/ animal; good/ evil; comic/sad. They re-enforce what has always been a passion; the combination of the exotic and the ordinary...
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 "I have been influenced by Ikebana, the Arts of Japanese Flower Arranging, which I have studied for several years. Together with this and the influence of other Japanese Art, I have explored the use of asymmetrical forms using the natural colour of stoneware and porcelain clay, enhanced by stained inlay decoration...
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Doug was born in, and returned to, Coleford in the Forest of Dean. Doug says of his work ‘I should be entirely abstract, but instead I lean towards landscape type themes to hang paint on...
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 Born in 1936, Trevor Edmands studied at Leeds College of Art in the 1960s to the mid 1970s.
He has since exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and in USA with key exhibitions being held in London, Cincinatti, Germany and Italy.
His work is characterised by immense variety and remarkable inventiveness.
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 Libby's Paintings
"I do not have any deep or intense philosophy about my work but I love the act of painting of picking up paint and putting it onto a canvas it’s a one-off mark every time and therefore exciting and without guarantee!
I live in a wonderful environment a both geographically and spiritually rich place...
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 Nigel's Ceramics
All of the work is handbuilt using slab construction, coiling and, occasionally, throwing and coiling in combination. Craft-crank and ‘T’ material are used, fired to 1250°C in oxidation, only limited use is made of glazes with colour coming from metal oxides and high firing slips...
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 While Completing by BA(Hons) in "DAA Ceramics" at the University of Wolverhampton, I have excelled in throwing and am particularly interested in the firing process. My emphasis being on soda firing and have attended a kiln building workshop with Joe Finch...
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Brian was born in London and he worked in the precious metal industry for 40. years, marketing industrial precious metals for major European refiners and bullion dealers.
On retirement, he has used his extensive technical knowledge to design and handcraft a range of jewellery that best reflects the metals unique characteristics and lustre
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 Fascinated by maps, Annabel prints these and other images onto raw clay, creating illustrated ceramics that explore a sense of place. She has developed her own printing method over several years, printing before she constructs the vessel rather than on the finished pots. Annabel is a member of the Crafts Potters Association
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 Glass Designer/Maker
Sally graduated with a First Class Honours Degree from Surrey Institute of Art and Design in 1998. Following her graduation she then moved on to work with Colin Reid for a year. Her work is exhibited internationally in museums and galleries and she also works to commission for public, corporate and private environments...
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 Laura produces a range of work combining ceramic and mixed-media such as wood and metal.
Her work is slab-built, layered with printed imagery and raku-fired. The printed imagery on her work relates to her past and the traces others leave behind...
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 Beth says "I gained a 1st class BA Fine Art and Art History in 2002 and an MA Fine Art distinction in 2004, and since 2001 have been exhibiting in group and solo shows mostly in Cardiff, Shrewsbury, Aberystwyth and Birmingham and also in London, Cheltenham and Bath...
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 Natural looking stones with interesting shapes and colours are the main inspiration behind my work.
Whether it be a combination of complimenting stones or the simplicity of just one stone by itself, every piece is unique and attention grabbing.
Current designs involve the use of semi precious stones such as labradorite, kyanite, aquamarine and African brass.
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 "I am strongly influenced by the natural environment and the organic aspects of glass itself.
A respectful fascination of the nature of the material and its relationship with light, leads me to explore innovative and exciting ways to create a great array of textures and forms...
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 MICHAEL FLYNN has an international following. Whilst he has a studio in Wales he was working in Poland when this exhibition was arranged. His highly distinctive figurative ceramics draw inspiration from such diverse sources as Meissen figurines, expressionist art and the gestural ceramics of Peter Voulkos...
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 Kim is a designer maker based in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Working mainly with Raku and smoke firing processes, he aims to produce pieces that are contemporary in design but which retain the integrity of a longstanding practice. Kim utilises many traditional methods, but does not ignore developments and improvements that can result from inspired experimentation.
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 Initially, Matt's work has a sense of perceived simplicity. The heightened colour values are realised by a series of controlled watercolour washes empathetic to the screen-printing process.
The methodical layering of the separate washes, applied dry on dry, allows the surface to open up a much broader palette...
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 Penny uses porcelain and bone china clays. She makes moulds in which she casts her forms which enables her to make very thin fine forms, often using layers or inlays of different coloured slips. The forms are then hand carved and then finely sanded to achieve a natural smooth "pebble" like quality. She often make forms that link together as pairs...
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 Alan studied at Bath Academy of Art and subsequently taught art in schools, eventually teaching ceramics at Saffron Walden College of Education. In 1977 he set up as a self-employed potter. He has exhibited widely in the UK and also in the USA. Alan’s current work is principally hand-built one-off pieces. He coils slabs and pinches on both a large and small scale...
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 Michelle's ceramics are functional yet stimulating and inspirational. Michelle says-
"My pieces to date are a mix of hand built, press mould, and thrown techniques. I use stoneware clay, incorporating slips and oxides into a scratched surface. Most include snippets of thoughts or poetry written during my travels or when the subtleties of an environment evoked me...
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 Margaret discovered clay at Bolton College of Art and developed this enthusiasm at Stoke-on-Trent School of Art under Derek Emms. He introduced her to working with reduction fired stoneware in the Eastern tradition. It was at this time that she met her husband David and they started to lay the foundation for the establishment of their workshop which they have had now for forty years...
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 Ronnie was born in Glasgow. He graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a B.A. Hons Design (Ceramics) in 1980. Since 2005, as well as making, he has worked as a part-time teacher of ceramics in various schools in East Lothian...
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 Ninna says of her work, “I like my pots to be harmonious and simplistic - because I then have the freedom to play with them. Make one lean one way, have an unusual detail one another. I try to work with simplicity in order to give those details more room. My work is white porcelain with inlaid lines of colored clay. The lines play with the simple, yet often surprising forms.”
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Jonathan Garratt concentrates on wood firing a locally dug clay (terracotta) for work ranging from unusual garden planters to slipware, decorative pots and garden art installations. Many of the influences derive from prehistoric pottery and other artefacts and from tribal arts. Grounding in thrown garden terracotta pots made in quantity...
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 "My interest in ceramics began in California where my husband and I lived for eleven years. On returning to England in 2004, I applied to study ceramics at degree level at Bath Spa University and have recently graduated. There are many processes in the creation of the clay object, all of which could end in disaster, until finally the object is given up to the mercy of the kiln...
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 Magdalena Gazur, 27, lives in Poland. She first studied ceramics at the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Art in Poland before coming to the University of Wolverhampton to extend her studies. She is proficient in throwing, handbuilding, glaze technology, painting and drawing...
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 After 20 happy years as a Chef Tim was forced through ill health to change careers. Art College seemed like a good idea and whilst there he touched clay for the first time, the date was November 22nd 1996, He immediately and rapturously fell head over heals in love...
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 Carolyn, who was born in Singapore, has been a professional potter for over twenty years. She obtained a BA Honours Degree in Wood, Metal, Ceramics and Plastics from the, then, Brighton Polytechnic and subsequently a Postgraduate Diploma in Ceramics from Goldsmiths College. She is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association and a Member of the Society of Craftsmen Designers...
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Katie Green BA Hons
Katie qualified from Gloucestershire University in 1979. Since then she has become fascinated in Mosaics and in particular the possibilities of adding new perspectives to this ancient art.
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 "Born in Worcestershire, employed in the print trade, I have worked closely with photographers and artists to publish post cards, greetings cards, fine art prints and calendars.
I work predominantly in gouache which as a medium allows me to express myself with true depth and colour but still retain the subtlety of watercolour...
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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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"I design and make press-moulded plates with fish for imagery. The plates incorporate ceramics with my interests in drawing and decoration. They should be read on four levels: as plates; as overall decorative objects; as specific imagery and, very importantly to me, as ceramic happenings...
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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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 Lisa has for the last 25 years been committed to making and teaching salt and soda vapour glaze studio pottery. In 1994 Lisa set up her present studio, a converted railway station in Greenwich London.
Her work embraces an extensive range of thrown functional ware for the preparation, cooking, serving and eating food from...
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 John Harris is essentially a landscape artist; John 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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 "Working in bronze is new to me.
I studied Three Dimensional Design at Bath Academy of Art, specialising in Ceramics, followed by a PGCE at Lancaster, then taught.
I was born and grew up in Herefordshire enjoying life on a farm, found some clay in a ditch and started making pots. I did my Foundation course at Hereford school of Art...
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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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 Steve Harrison is an important Australian ceramicist. He specialises in wood-fired porcelain. His work has been described as “radical localism” given that his elegantly ‘simple’ vessels are made almost entirely of locally prospected raw materials. Like the French winemaker, Steve sees ‘terroir’ as the authentic provenance of his pots...
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 Denmark
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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Karin Hessenberg (1944-) was born in Berkhamstead and is now best known for her thrown and handbuilt vessels and stools for gardens.
Her first studio was within the Barbican Arts Group in London. The turning point was initially an experimental response for a Barbican Arts Group exhibition when she burnished some of her thrown pots and sawdust fired them...
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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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 Natural and organic forms are one of the principal subjects in my ceramic work. In last years sculpture show at Bevere, I exhibited a large brick-carved autumn leaf bowl. This year I have concentrated on making smaller pieces that can be incorporated into any size of garden.
My autumn leaf bowls are made from large single slabs of local brick clay...
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 A thirty year background in precision engineering has trained me to work with a meticulous eye for tight tolerances, refined lines and defined angles. My interests in nature and contemporary architecture have been incorporated to create pieces that contain the essence of natural forms in shapes that have clarity of line and beauty in simplicity...
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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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 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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 In 2003 Ashley Howard 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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Chris was born in Worcestershire and from an early age he was aware that painting would play a big part in his life. After graduating from art school and a career in firstly the exhibition trade and then the glass industry, where his designs are still featured on windows and mirrors in banks and public buildings, he decided to take up painting professionally...
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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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 Christopher Hughes left the famous Royal Worcester Porcelain Company in 1980 to become a freelance artist...
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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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Maggie was born in 1943 and her training started at St. Albans School of Art and continued at Swansea School of Art & University, leading her into art teaching. Whilst she was a Fellow at Digswell Arts Trust, she took the leap into independence as an artist.
For many years she lived in North Wales, becoming very well known as a ceramicist...
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 The unique character of Paul Jackson's work derives from two interrelated processes. Each piece is first thrown on the wheel, then subtly altered in form - giving the pot an individual character and strength defined by a journey of discovery...
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 Glass Designer/Maker
Richard’s sculptures begin as ideas, with titles anchoring them in his imagination. The forms then develop to give a voice to the idea. Curving planes and shifting volumes, delicate points and perfect curving edges result in beautiful, intriguing and complex forms...
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 "The sculpture I produce ranges from animals such as hares, cockerels, otters and meerkats to human figures.
My work is made in a range of clays such as stoneware, porcelain and earthenware. I have been designing and making ceramics since 1987.
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After a successful career as an occupational therapist, Jean gained a first-class degree in ceramics from Wolverhampton University. Using impressive technical ability, she makes large stoneware hand-built vessels of a sculptural nature, creating great visual impact. Her work received immediate recognition: ‘The Potclays Award for Outstanding Work in Clay’.
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 Illustrations by Anita for
Sam McBratney' Book
Guess How much I Love You
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 Hand sculptured wooden toys for children crafted out of English hardwoods. A member of the British Toymakers Guild and were accredited Toy Maker of the Year in 1998.
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 Emma Johnstone is a London-based contemporary ceramicist who creates work using the dramatic firing process of Raku.
Each piece is a unique hollow-thrown vessel, which is Raku fired and gilded with three types of gold and copper leaf.
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 David is a recently retired teacher and lecturer, although he still takes one to one woodturning classes for beginners and the more experienced enthusiast.
He designs and makes mainly in wood, his work ranging from wood turning and small pieces to funiture...
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 David Jones was born in 1953. He graduated in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick in 1974. He has been a Senior Lecturer (0.5) in the Ceramics Department at the University of Wolverhampton, for the past fifteen years. He is a Fellow of the Crafts Potter Association of England...
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 Tony has lived in Droitwich for twenty five years. Following a brain haemorrhage In 1998, he rekindled his interest in wood-turning after a break of over thirty years. This was soon after he retired as a police sergeant, having completed thirty years’ service. He now works part-time as a training officer, travelling throughout the U.K...
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 Andrew, who trained in Fine Art in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, lives and works in Malvern.
Imagery derives mostly from charcoal drawings sketched on walks. He has been cutting and printing from his own lino blocks, using a home-made press, for the last eight years...
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 Linda enjoys working in an experimental way, allowing herself the flexibility to adapt her style to suit each subject, whether it is a study of a delicate flower or a robust landscape. Linda works in watercolour, charcoal and oils.
In her paintings she aims to reflect the visual impact that a scene can have on ones senses and consequently the emotions...
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 MO was born in South London in 1938. He graduated first from Camberwell Art School where he was taught by Hans Coper, Lucy Rie and Colin Pearson and later developed his vocation in ceramics at the Royal College of Art.
Since the 1960's he has been teaching and lecturing in many English art colleges. His work enjoys worldwide esteem...
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 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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 Anita studied at Chelsea and the Slade Schools of Art.
She is a fellow and past president of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (re) and has work in many private and public collections in Europe, the USA and Australia, including the Arts Council of Great Britain.
"It is nice to have a real humourist recruited to the ranks of gifted painters...
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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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My preferred sculpture technique is direct carving, whether in stone or wood I prefer not to do too much preliminary design or maquette work and enjoy the process of carving itself and like to let the form evolve from the material and dictate its own final appearance...
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 Jean-Paul treats the surface of the work as a painter uses canvas. Multiple layers of coloured clays, slips and sgraffito motifs share influences drawn from Leger, Cocteau and Braque.
In his more abstract figures he enjoys the interplay of the motif and the form. Each design is intended to 'Sing out to the viewers own imagination'...
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 Malcolm is a Photographic Artist - Original Images and very limited (3-10) editions on canvas and paper.
Working with medium format film and high resolution scanning equipment he produces stunning images up to 1.5m wide.
Subjects encompass aspects of the man-made and natural worlds from extreme close-ups to panoramic landscapes.
Malcolm's stylistic output ranges from naturalistic to modern.
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 “I think that if people live with beautiful or stimulating things they will live, breathe, and
think better. These are difficult, even fearful times, and I am reminded of a poem I wrote that ended:
“and what was there
before time or magic
And what will remain after
Will there be relics?”
I sincerely hope so, and that my glass will be found among them...
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 Gilles was born in Quimper, France. He trained at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and in 1979 graduated with B.A Hons.
He has exhibited widely in the UK and his work is to be found in Stoke on Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, The W.A. Ismay Collection Yorkhire Museum York and Rufford Ceramics Centre Nottinghamshire.
He is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association
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 Born in St Ives Cornwall John Leach was apprenticed to grandfather Bernard and father David Leach between 1957 and 1963. In 1964/5 the pottery at Muchelney in Somerset was established making oil-fired functional ware.
John has established an international reputation for his hand-thrown, wood-fired oven-to-table stoneware...
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Jo Lee is a multi-media artist based in Leeds. Core to her work is a fascination with the human form and the human condition. Jo’s work is influenced by ordinary day-to-day events, life, living and ultimately our demise and is interested by the ways in which a person’s life can be acknowledged and validated...
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 I work on the wheel with porcelain and stoneware and explore variations on the vessel form. Fast and free gestural markings and painterly brushstrokes, inspired by music, rhythm, travel, explore plane and surface and conclude with the serendipitous play of fire in salt-glazing. Individual items range from 9cm to 50cm.
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 Art Designer in Timber and metal Leon Lewis - Designer and Maker in Timber and Metal
Leon’s work follows a fascination of the relationship between the man-made and natural world.
Inspiration comes from steam powered machinery of the Industrial Revolution era as this awakens sensations of power and dynamism...
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 Hand built forms bowls, dishes, vases, jugs, small planters, and containers constructed from sheets of stoneware clay or porcelain fired to cone 8 in an electric kiln using sprayed glazes. They can fulfil a utilitarian function but are more often used as a focal point in an interior.
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 "My work explores the relationship between geometry and nature. The composite pieces I make are hand built in a white stoneware clay using a combination of pinching, press moulding and slab building processes. The work is fired inside saggars filled with sawdust and fired to stoneware temperature. This gives distinctive markings and a dense surface quality".
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 Neil says-
"As a blacksmith I graduated from the world-renowned School of Blacksmithing in Hereford, where I later taught. Based in Herefordshire, I am inspired by organic forms ??“ such as ferns and alium, - and also by the mythical - life-sized dragons being a speciality. In addition to working in metal I now also work with wood."
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 Artist/Printmaker
Andy was born in east London. He studied at Liverpool School of Art and Design (1983-86) where he specialised in illustration. He has had numerous commissions for newspapers, magazines and books and held several exhibitions of his prints. He works using drawing and painting as the starting point for his prints, mainly lithographs and silkscreen prints.
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 In the 1980s Martin studied on the highly regarded Design/Ceramics course at Kent Institute of Art and Design, Rochester. In the mid 1990s he entered the BA ceramics course at the University of Wales, Cardiff.He found the variety of the course inspirational and then applied for, and was accepted, to study for an MA at the Royal College of Art...
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 " Without seeing and experiencing life how can an artist possibly have anything to paint ?"
"Born in 1960 I have always maintained a passion for art, Graduating from St Martins London with a Fine Art Degree in 1981 and going on to work as an interior designer in the UK and internationally for twenty years...
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 Since studying at Northampton School of Art, Ian has worked as a teacher, freelance designer, finished artist/illustrator and computer printmaker. In recent years etching has come to be Ian's primary vehicle of expression.
Many of his etching utilise traditional techniques and processes, but a large part of his work remains experimental...
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Neil MacDonell
Professional member of The Craft Potters Association
Born in Southwark, London. My Father was an architect and my two sisters and I had a lot of exposure to the arts and crafts, particularly old buildings! I remember becoming aware of the creative effects of fire when a neighbours wooden garage containing an ancient ash framed van caught fire...
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Sally MacDonell
Professional member of The Craft Potters Association
I am continually fascinated by people. I'm a great observer of people and thrive on interaction with others. I explore the human condition by modelling the female form from clay; changing the mood and feeling of a piece by the positioning of a shoulder or hand...
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Born in 1961, Duncan grew up in the Midlands where he still spends a substantial part of the year. Despite living so far inland, he managed to develop a passion for the sea, and spent a highly significant eighteen months sailing across the Atlantic and then around the coast of Britain. He now spends part of the year back home in the Midlands, and the rest of the time in Scotland...
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I work within the classic tradition of wheel-thrown ceramics. My medium is porcelain and I use a blend of Limoges, mixed with other porcelain bodies to achieve a high level of translucency. I seek painterly effects in my glazes and prefer the natural characteristics of reduction firing to augment the decorative process...
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 Blake and Janette both trained at art school in London. Blake in ceramics and jewellery at Central School and Janette in ceramics at Croydon College. Blake was in charge of the ceramics department at Portsmouth College of Art and subsequently Croydon College...
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Pietro studied ceramics at the West Surrey College of Art & Design in England. After two more years of work at the Dartington Workshop, he returned to Italy where in 1980 he established a studio and founded La Meridiana, the International School of Ceramics in Tuscany.
I am totally and continuously interested in the process of making...
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 John Maltby, whose work needs little introduction, is one of the best known sculptural potters working in England. He has a quite distinct voice and the past year seems to have been a particularly prolific and creative one.
Born in Lincolnshire in 1936 he studied at Leicester College of Art and Goldsmith’s College. He joined David Leach in 1962 and established his own workshop in 1964.
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 Bert has spent his life working with wood and it is his love of it, coupled with a deep understanding of its ways, which have influenced his work.
He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker, designing and producing quality commissioned furniture.
In 1965 he taught at Brighton Polytechnic, and in 1982 he decided to concentrate on his own work...
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 Wolverhampton graduate in Pottery
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 Will Levi Marshall was born 27 March 1969, is married and has two daughters.
I trained in ceramics/design (Ba. Hons. 3D design Man Met UK, MFA Fine Art (ceramics) Alfred NY USA.) and have established an international exhibition record in that field, with my work in many significant public and private collections...
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 James was born in Lossiemouth, Scotland. A natural and compulsive artist, he drew and painted from his earliest years, which marked the beginning of a life-long passion for art.
After qualifying and practising as a doctor for seven years the desire to make art would not go away and in 1993 he made a complete career change turning full time to painting...
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 Hand built vessel oriented stoneware and paperclay pieces, reduction fired.
Being a musician as well as a potter, I bring into my ceramic work the same creative process which lies behind improvisation in music: the spontaneity and intuitive "free-ness" of the moment of creation.
I like to leave impressed in clay the immediacy of this process, both in texture and in form. The...
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 I am inspired by landscape; I explore ways of representing it through different forms of abstraction.
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 : Edinburgh based artist Niall McWilliam paints contemporary themes which enable the spectator to draw upon a veriety of experiences. He aims to conjour moods which his audience can share and enjoy. Niall has developed his paintng techniques allowing a layering of materials which are built up creating a visual depth to his work...
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 Kay McDonagh is married with two children and lives in Worcester. She has always painted and when her first child went to school in 1986 she decided to turn her hobby into a profession. She loves cats and many of her paintings are of her own dog Ozzy.
Her other work includes both animal and flower studies...
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 My interest in architecture, in particular steel bridges has caused me to look closer at the intricate and complex patterns that they portray. I love the symmetry and the precision of these bridges and their huge scale.
I combine the essence of these large structures with thin pieces of clay, portraying them through framed wall tiles...
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 Mark trained at Muchelney before spending four years in West Africa as a VSO volunteer, kiln building,training and making pots.
In 2002 Mark rejoined the Mulelney Pottery full time.
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 Eric James Mellon is a potter dedicated to the ceramic process who is also skilled as a graphic artist...
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 Ewen Merry has been taking photography seriously since 2002.
His first successful solo exhibition of monochrome images was held at Bevere in 2002/03.
In 2004 he was awarded a licentiateship of the Royal Photographic Society for his panel of monochrome landscape images.
More recently he has worked in colour as well as black & white...
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My jewellery designs are influenced by topographical maps, navigational charts and devices. I enjoy the intricate graphic detailing of both old and foreign maps, exploring the complex layers I discover the subtle variation of line quality, repetition and tiny symbols.
Parts of the silver are etched with sections of maps which interact with the bold lines and curves of wire...
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John Lowrie Morrison was born in Glasgow in 1948, and from an early age he showed a talent for art. After completing a degree in Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art he set out to pursue a career in art and design; he funded his painting by teaching, firstly as Head of Art and Design at Lochgilphead High School and then as Art Adviser for the Strathclyde Region...
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 I work in raku as I like the way the finished pots reflect their 'elemental' journey from mud to ceramic: I think this particular process imparts a 'sense of life' within a piece. The transparent crackle glaze I use dresses tightly-controlled, thrown, sculpted forms in a complementary random and natural effect punctuated by paper and glue resisted areas...
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 Whether you are looking for a bread crock, a chicken brick, a salt pig, a goblet or more everyday kitchen and tableware crockery ??“ from jugs, mugs, dishes and storage jars to bowls, plates, hotpots, casseroles and tea or coffee pots ??“ you’ll find them in our kitchenware range...
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 CLAIRE MURRAY has worked with clay since her early twenties - as both a student and during her career as a teacher. She now devotes her time to the development of her own work and teaching in schools as a clay artist.
She is a figurative ceramicist and her current work is based around the complexities of human communication...
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 Working with animals makes me very happy, and one way I can share this is through the ceramics I make.
Animal behaviour is so expressive and entertaining that I feel as if they can almost talk.
I believe that smiling is very important in life, and it is my hope that the animals I create will, in turn, bring a smile to your face.
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 My current work is influenced by fabric designs from the 1950's and 60's. The painters, Ben Nicholson, Paul Klee and Eva Hesse influence some pieces.
I am a designer and maker of handmade porcelain vases, bowls and decorative platters, 12cm - 40cm in diameter.
The decoration is integral using inlays of coloured clays and slips...
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 Andrew has had an affinity with clay from the moment his parents bought him his first potter’s wheel at the age of five. Enthusiastic schoolteachers encouraged this early enjoyment of art, in particular clay...
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 I make saltglazed domestic pots, specialising in teapots together with jugs, mugs and cups of varying shapes and sizes. These have been steadily evolving since 2000 when I started experimenting with open handles as an alternative to the closed loops conventionally used in ceramics...
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 My career as an artist began in 1976. When I left school, I went to work as a stone carver at St Paul’s Cathedral. I subsequently went on to obtain an honours degree in sculpture at Kennington School of Art. I then went on to work as a conservator of ancient monuments at, among other places, Arundel Castle and Harewood House...
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 Andrew was born and brought up in the coastal Northwest of England but has now lived in Warwickshire for six years.
It was during his scientific career, researching his PhD in mammalian genetics and chromosomal biology at Cambridge, that he discovered ceramics and began a long fascination with the art form, both making and collecting...
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 I was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
I work both in clay and on paper,
combining drawing skills, with my knowledge of human anatomy and clay technology.
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 Born in the Midlands in 1976, Richard’s artistic leanings were obvious from an early age. As a child he dreamed of being a painter, and he regards himself as one of life’s lucky ones, gifted with the talent to turn dreams into reality...
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 In my response to the landscape I place particular importance upon colour structures. I focus on the act of painting through formal qualities such as: line, colour, structure, composition, light and space. I have made my work with the intention of stimulating the human senses, as well as the mind...
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 I am a designer-maker based in Bristol combining the traditional craft of enamelling with fresh, clean, contemporary design.
Enamelling is the art of fusing glass onto metal. Watching an enamelled copper panel emerging from a kiln glowing red hot after being fired at a temperature of 800°C is always an exciting experience. As the metal cools the true colours of the panel emerge...
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 Pauline was born and educated in North London. She left school at fifteen and worked as an Assistant Stage Manager and actress in various repertory companies as well as in the West End of London, film and television. Pauline eventually became a television Production Assistant and worked her way up to Assistant Producer...
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 Artist based in Gloucestershire
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 COMBINED PROCESS ON PAPER
‘A painting is an accumulation of time apprehended instantaneously’ Peter Lanyon
In the continuous framework of experience over time, the past and present find their equivalents within a working process, where a kind of alchemy takes place...
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 I am a printmaker, and the majority of my work combines collagraph and etching techniques to build up multilayered imagery with rich, textural surfaces. My prints utilise both representational and abstract elements, to produce images that portray my experience of the landscape. I am fascinated by the different atmospheres that light creates in both our rural and urban environments...
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 Nowadays I work almost entirely in aquatint (images made up entirely of tones, with no drawn lines) or make monoprints painted directly on the printing plate.
I love aquatints for the range of contrast possible, and for the velvety effect it gives, especially with darker colours...
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 After a career teaching, Barbara graduated recently as a mature student in Visual Arts.
Her work both in ceramics and painting refers to the influence of man on the environment. Changes in colour and shape of the earth are remnants of industry which can be represented by oxides and volcanic glazes or by textural surfaces.
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 Richard is an established professional potter whose work has been exhibited throughout the UK and can be found in collections internationally. He is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association, and is on the Crafts Council of Great Britain's Index of Selected Makers.
His latest work primarily focuses on honey and clear glazed finishes...
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 "My work is made to be used and enjoyed. It is all thrown using a stoneware clay. I keep the forms as simple as possible, working on the subtle variations and contrasts that highlight one form from another.
For the surfaces I layer slips and glazes, to create a rich and varied effect, and use a combination of dipping, pouring and hakeme to make spontaneous marks which compliment the form.
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 John Pollex has worked in all areas of slip-decoration since the early seventies. In the mid eighties he developed a range of highly coloured slips which he now applies to his work with a variety of sponges and brushes.
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 Amanda Popham. September 2008
Narrative ceramics which may seem, at first glance, decorative and playful but, like all good stories, can be ambiguous or sinister or have an air of thoughtful melancholy...
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 Michael Praed’s work ranges from large canvases of landscape and sea to smaller paintings depicting familiar, friendly scenes of Cornishmen at work; from long, lonely beaches on the Isles of Scilly to the bustle of the Newlyn fish market; but always illustrating the observational and technical skills of the artists to marvelous effect...
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 All the ceramics are hand-made; thrown on the wheel by Rupert Johnstone and then hand painted by Alice Hartford. The current range is fired at earthenware temperature. Colour is first applied using various clay slips. When the clay slip is drying, scraffito tools are used to incise lines through the colour and create specific designs...
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 Alison is from Lincoln and specialises in hand made original prints in a variety of methods; Screenprints, Etchings/Aquatinting and Linocuts.
The subject matter is quirky, fun and mainly animal humour, but always different. In the main, Alison is a known as a printmaker, although she has had commissions in bronze. She studied at Newcastle University, completing her B.A.(Hons) in Fine Art.
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 Nick Rees
Born 1949, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset
Nick Rees works as master potter for John Leach at Muchelney Pottery, hand-throwing a repeat range of stoneware kitchen pots and everyday tableware, as well as making individual signed pieces, mainly bottle and bowl forms in wood-fired stoneware.
Nick has worked with John Leach at the Pottery since 1972...
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 " I have been making pots for over 20 years and exhibited all over Britain. My work has evolved and matured and followed many different styles and techniques, but eventually I have returned to my first love Wood Firing." Andrew uses local materials- clay, rocks and ash. He has built 2 kilns enabling him to produce a variety of work which reflects his own style
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 Christine-Ann Richards trained at Harrow School of Art and Technology with Mick Casson (1971-73), then worked with David Leach. In London, she started her own workshop as a member of the Barbican Arts Group (1975-83) and in 1976 was elected to membership of the Craftsmen Potters Association and the Society of Designer Craftsmen...
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 For many years I had been getting increasingly tired of the constraints of slip casting and glazing and had been searching for a freer way of working. Since 2000 two events have been central to my new way of working. A Jane Perryman five-day course and a trip to Malawi, working with Malawian potters, changed my whole outlook and presented me with a wealth of new possibilities...
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 While studying art in 1999 John won the Peter Spicer Student of the Year award. Part of his prize was an exhibition of his work at the Bevere Vivis Gallery in Worcester UK which was the forerunner of the Gallery at Bevere. John paintings are documents of a strange unknown performance. Narratives are subtly unraveled and then contradicted...
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 Jim Robison’s primary focus is the creation of ceramics with sculptural and architectural applications. These are often slab-ware vessels, which are individual pieces and sculpture commissions.
He is a frequent demonstrator and is well known for his lectures and courses. He is an elected Fellow of the Craft Potters Association...
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 EMMA RODGERS has had a meteoric rise in the ceramic firmament.
Her sculpture of both human and animal forms is both evocative and provocative. Her hares were for some time signature pieces and it was the way in which Emma captured the essence of the animal, speed and elusiveness which captured the imagination...
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 My work is divided approximately equally between two kilns. About half is Salt Glazed in a 60 cu.ft. kiln that is fired with propane gas and the other half in my old and trusted oil fired kiln of 75 cu.ft.
Salt Glazing is an exciting, but often less than predictable, method of firing pottery. As the kiln approaches the height of the firing the temperature has risen to a white hot 1260C...
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 Sarah Ross-Thompson is a Fine Art Printmaker specialising in hand-inked, original collagraph prints inspired by the Dorset landscape.
Using carefully built collage blocks, her work combines the vibrant colours of oil-based printing inks with the textural qualities of the materials she uses. This combination produces a distinctive look that makes her work instantly recognisable...
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 All Vivienne's work is made using red earthenware clay, which is decorated using coloured slips and underglazes. Her interest lies in making pots which act as containers for both objects and ideas. Each piece is unique; hand-made, individually decorated and signed...
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 "Ambiguity surrounds my work, through which I strive to sensitively engage the viewer.
Thrown, altered and nurtured on the potter's wheel or meticulously hand built using coils, my sculptural monochromic vessels are Raku fired and then left naked without glaze, only dressed by delicate decoration painted in smoke...
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 "I was born into an Australian musical family. Dinners were eaten from plates that had been glazed in eucalyptus ash and wood-fired in a climbing kiln built by Col Levy in New South Wales, Australia. We still have those plates.
Subsequent, and formative influences were kindled by Geoffrey Whiting, who introduced me to the ideas of Bernard Leach and the Sung aesthetic...
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 Although my ideas and inspiration come from the Cornish landscape, especially West Cornwall, people often say my paintings remind them of other landscapes, usually a place or a time that has a special meaning for them. This is not unexpected as when we look at an abstracted image we bring to it our visual memories. So for each of us it has its own meaning.
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 Michael Salt was born in 1955 in North Worcestershire and studied at Stourbridge Art College.
After working in Jersey and Wales as a Graphic Artist, he returned to his own town of Stourbridge, to concentrate on painting.
He finds inspirations in varying subjects, the British countryside, whether rural or coastal, buildings, railways and aircraft...
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 Lily studied sculpture at Harrow School of Art in London, and her figures have gone to collectors as far afield as the U.S., New Zealand and Australia, as well as throughout the U.K. and Europe. Lily's love of African and Oceanic art is clearly reflected in her work and the early influence of Brancusi and Modigliani have contributed to the special character of her figures...
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 Micki lives & works in the beautiful environment of the Gower Penninsular, South Wales, where she makes wood-fired, salt-glazed ceramics.
As one of very few potters in the UK making contemporary wood fired salt glazed work.
Micki explains
"The packing of a salt kiln is very intricate and time consuming...
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 John Scott Martin RSBA
John was born in Nottingham and studied painting at Nottingham College of Art in the 60's. He lives in rural Warwickshire, just about as far from the sea as you can get. This doesn't stop him from making frequent trips to the coast to build his picture library...
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 My work involves the digital manipulation of established vocabularies of printed motif, pattern and image from industrial ceramic archives and engraved book illustration. Cloning and collaging these, sometimes with photographic elements, I create contemporary artworks in ceramic and printed form.
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 Karinna is a contemporary artist / maker with a passion for creating unique objects from hot glass.
Using traditional glass blowing and hand forming skills combined with modern design, Karinna creates elegant pieces ranging from luxury giftware to one off art forms...
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 Vicky holds a BA (Hons) and A Masters degree in ceramics from CNAA, Staffordshire Polytechnic, now Staffordshire University.
Vicky is noted for her work in porcelain, particularly for her expertise in porcelain finishes and her distinctive use of colour and form...
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 Peter says
"I was born in Birmingham and trained at Moseley School of Art and Birmingham College of Art...
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 Intricate beauty and hidden details of nature play a central role in my work, coupled with a love of throwing as a means of making.
Beautiful markings and fascinating features, created by the forces of nature, are taken directly from the bark of trees to distort and subtly texture the surface of my finely thrown bowls...
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 Daniel Smith produces a wide range of hand-thrown porcelain tableware. His honest and simple approach results in an understated elegance. The weight of the porcelain in the hand combined with the pure delicate forms makes each piece a delight to hold and use.
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Author of "Sketching Wild Birds"
Trevor combines a career in wildlife conservation with his passion for wildlife art. He has been painting for 25 years, working from life whenever possible; the British countryside and its wildlife providing the inspiration for his work...
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 "My interest in ceramics started over twenty years ago in Cornwall where I grew up. I spent summers in my father's Gallery in Padstow observing and selling crafts to the holiday makers whilst he painted. After leaving school I studied at Plymouth College of Art and achieved a Higher National Diploma in Ceramics...
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Dan makes hand-built architectural ceramics using earthenware, slips and glazes.
He trained to be a ceramicist and spent a number of years as an education technician at Camden Arts Centre.
Dan now works from his own studio and is exhibiting and selling work around the country...
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 Brian Steventon . RBSA . MBA. BA Hons
Brian explains “I am inspired by the abstract element within the subject, very often atmospheric and light conditions enhance the abstract quality that I am seeking...
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 Jonathan graduated in 2009 from the BA (Hons) Artist Blacksmithing course at Hereford College of Arts.
Jonathan's work consists of abstract outdoor sculptures and innovative indoor furnishings, manufactured through a blend of traditional Blacksmithing techniques and modern manufacturing processes such as water-jet and computer CNC laser cutting.
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Through a long-term passion for horses, Frances has gained a deep understanding of their Character and conformation, and in recognition of her expertise in this field, has recently been promoted to an Associate Member of the Society of Equestrian Artists (ASEA).
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 Through the use of familiar objects including a bag, a food tin, baby clothes and a house my work explores known conventions in storytelling, literature and photography, as well as more experimental, theatrical concepts of performance and installation...
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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 TATEBAYASHI
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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 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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 Holland
Toon Thijs's reputation is based on his remarkable designs and their underlying concepts. As well as his one-off pieces, he also makes limited series of unusual practical and decorative objects. The pots are austere in shape, with a great sense of detail and colour. They are made i n earthenware and fired electric to 1080º C.
Toon was born in Belgium...
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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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 The non-functional ceramic vessel has been the focus of my practice for several years. I mainly create one off pieces for exhibition but also work to commission and participate in collaborative projects.
Recently work has been redeveloped in a major project supported by the Scottish Arts Council, and is informed by formal research into aspects of tourism...
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I trained as a Engineer at a Midland Company, working firstly as a Draughtsman, later as a Project Planning Engineer
I started making pots at evening classes at Wolverhampton College of Art, later moving to Dudley College of Art and then to classes at Wolverhampton Adult College where, after 12 months as a student, I was given my first part-time teaching job...
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 Combining a background in structural engineering and a passion for working with wood, Andrew's designs explore structured and goemetric forms which interpret the landscape; and express characteristics of balance, stress, light and texture...
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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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 A predominant influence in this work is the landscape, but not a static landscape, instead a landscape in time; where things grow, the land moves, geological deposits are built up and most importantly where humankind has intervened and our repetitive, methodic actions have left lasting visual effects on the environment...
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Hetty van Boekhout is a Batik artist,trained in painting and textile art , in Art colleges in Holland and Belgium making big size applique tapestries from dyed pieces of fabric.
She started to use Batik to explore her own design on different fabrics using figurative and abstract images. Batik combines her love and affinity with paint , dye , textile, , and colour...
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 Joanna says
"A degree in textiles followed by an MA in ceramics at the RCA in 1985 reinforced a fascination with pattern and surface which permeates all my work whether it be ceramic slip cast tiles and panels, porcelain jewellery or mosaics.
Using a fine line scratched into plaster I lay down my imagery with slips in a sedimentary and modular way prior to casting...
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 Artist Statement:-
Tina is a studio potter based in London producing one off hand built ceramics.
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"The pots are all made with an eye to the possibility of function, although this is always balanced by the sculptural strengths of the forms. They are pots made contemplatively, for contemplation...
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 Heads have become an obsession to me.
My work represents the search to create modern icons, whether flawed Heroes, outwardly noble and courageous but nevertheless a victim of sorts, or ambiguous Virgins, the symbol of perfection but also of female repression. Both of history and of now...
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 Cat creates decorative and functional vessels from pewter, which are hand-raised using traditional silversmithing techniques to create the organic qualities inherent throughout my work.
Her work is influenced by natural forms, including acorn cups and seedpods, which are reflected throughout her vessels...
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 Peter, born in Worcester is a versatile multi-media painter matching medium to subjects - the figure, portraits, boats, harbours, seascapes, caricatures and cartoons. He also likes the freedom and interesting effects of semi abstract painting. His connection with the ballet stems from his time as a pit musician playing for the shows...
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 Carole is an internationally renowned textile artist.
She makes painted clothes, and paintings on veils of cloth’ which become installations in three dimensional space.
Recently she has developed a way of working with glass to enclose the fragile fabric membrane in a tough monumental material...
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"I’m sure most people have been entertained at one time or another by simply sitting back and watching society walk by...
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 Josie read anthropology and following graduation in 1972 taught social studies for three years. However by 1979 she had completed ceramic training at Chesterfield College of Art and set up a workshop and retail outlet in Derbyshire. Josie’s distinctive functional pots have been a feature of the British studio pottery scene for over thirty years...
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 Gary was born in Worcestershire in the early 60s where he lives with his wife and daughter.
He is a self taught artist who works in watercolour and pen using his vivid imagination to create a world of realistic fantasy.
His subjects range from individual businesses, aeroplanes, boats and cars to anything his mind takes a fancy to....
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 I have worked in saltglaze for more than 25 years. Landscape is a theme in my work. I have walked, drawn and painted it since childhood and this lies behind the evolution of my Birdbaths, made since 1984.
Bird Baths, Sculptural pieces, Tiles, mugs, beakers, plates and bowls, all in saltglaze, comprise my current range of work...
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 Amanda’s work stems from a fascination with human nature and our ability to communicate without words.
She takes inspiration from the complexities of relationships and the qualities that make each of us individual, both physically and emotionally...
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 I grew up and studied photography and printmaking in Holland. In England I worked for many years as a painter and print maker.
One day, on a visit to Salisbury Cathedral, I was particularly struck by “The prisoners of conscience” window, painted by Gabriel Loire...
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 Gilda Westermann works in porcelain. She is known for the fine craftsmanship of her work and is recognised as one of the UK’s leading potters working with porcelain. The pots have a quality of throwing which is fluent, soft and creative...
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I am a glass & enamel artist & work from home in Solihull,
West Midlands.
I have been working with stained glass for the past 7 years & more recently with enamel for 3 years.
I relish in all forms of glass, therefore I enjoy using different mediums in my canvases & leaded panels...
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 As soon as I discovered the process of pit firing I knew that it was a way of working that I strongly identified with, and I felt that I had found my creative direction...
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 Inspired by the ordinary, my interest is in taking a snapshot of everyday urban
life and preserving the beauty of something that is often overlooked, using canvas and paint.
My paintings range from impressionistic to photo-realistic, the latter being the style selected for the show in Worcester, in order to most effectively translate that freeze-frame moment onto canvas...
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 John is an established artist living in Wimbledon, London, with works in permanent collections in the National Portrait Gallery and Westminster Abbey. Leaving art school I remember a tutor asking me what I planned to do, "Paint" I said and that's been my life ever since...
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 Potter who specialises in thrown and hand built pieces using crater glazes
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 "Originally from Yorkshire, I trained at Camberwell School of Art and the R.C.A., and now live and work in Sussex. I am the head of the Ceramics Diploma course at City Lit in London.
I make hand built vessel forms exploring a number of ideas and themes ??“ landscape, memories, symbols, people, meanings and associations beyond literal representation...
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 Kathryn blows hot glass! She is an award-winning artist, designer/maker of quality/quirky, funky/fresh, stylish/sassy handblown glass.
Her products include one off art pieces, functional objects created for an interior led market as well as a stunning range of glass 'art for wearing'...
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 This new body of work has been inspired by many recent visits to Hereford Cathedral, which I have been rediscovering. The skills of the craftsmen who created this work of art and that are also being matched in the restoration work is something I try to replicate in my own work, all be it on a smaller scale...
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Rod's is primarily conerned with capturing the effects of light and atmosphere. His watercolour work consists of delicate washes to convey an often ethereal effect, while his olil paintings, though more detailed display an eye sensitive to the changing landscape...
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 "My work is about the urban environment. I am taking objects and imagery that are present in the city and putting them into ceramic form.
I use slab hand building as my method to construct my forms.
The surfaces are treated with brightly coloured underglazes, transfers,glazes, oxides and mark making techniques."
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 As a ceramics student in the eighties, I was fascinated by a statement from “The Unknown Craftsman” by Soetsu Yanagi :
“When you are doing your work, you and your work are two different things, but when you become the work and do the work, true work becomes possible”...
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 John Wood MCSD, FSAI, RBSA
John was born in Birmingham with a talent for art and an early apprenticeship in heavy engineering. His introduction to the arts as a profession began with Calligraphy, Heraldry and hand drawn lettering...
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 Rachel says
"I love to explore the rhythm and movement of throwing clay on a wheel, excited by the freshness and spontaneity of the results. My personal intuitive touch is an integral part of my pots. This is evident by a wet hand on a soft form fresh off the wheel, through to an individual hand or fingerprint emphasised by the glaze...
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 Belgium
Patty Wouter's high energy has enabled her to successfully combine not only a career in c eramics and family commitments, but she also established and runs an art centre called Atelier Cirkel in Brasschat on the outskirts of Antwerp. Patty comes from an artistic family ¬ her father conducted a choir and played the violin, and her mother drew...
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 Hollie is a designer and craftswoman who uses reclaimed wood and fittings to make quirky functional furniture. Her influences come from the allotment and smallholding lifestyle she grew up with in rural Oxfordshire.
Chickens have always been a central part to her daily life, and so have become the leading characters of her work...
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 Ali Yanya. BA. MA. RCA
At the moment I am working on group compositions with shadowy, standing figures against unrecognisable spaces. The main idea behind these images is to draw attention to the transient nature of human existence. Without being too narrative my intention is to achieve a good balance between form and content.
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 Takeshi Yasuda is one of the most celebrated potters working in Europe today. Born in Tokyo, he was apprenticed to the Daisei-Gama pottery in Mashiko between 1963-66, and established his first studio there. He settled in Britain in 1973, combining his creative work with teaching for Art Schools and Universities across the UK...
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 Alan Yates BWS
Alan's interest in watercolour painting was revived around 1990 when he enrolled in a Watercolour Painting course run by Ray Whitehouse, a landscape artist and article writer for Leisure Painter magazine...
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 Claire is an artist and illustrator, working in enhanced watercolours, pastels and acrylics, with a solid background in art and design.
She is probably most renowned for her floral paintings that seem to capture a moment in time.
Her enchanting pet portraits have become a favourite with the artist and sought after by pet lovers at home and abroad...
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