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May Exhibition in the Gallery
Opened by the celebrity ceramics expert Henry Sandon
Solo ceramics exhibition
New Pots by Phil Rogers
Supported by watercolourist Ian Cruickshank and other professional house artists and Blown Glass by Karinna Sellars and Dean Hopkins
Exhibition continues till 26th May
Gallery open 10.30am-5pm Tuesday to Saturday and Sunday 6th May
Ceramics and Art Exhibition
Sat 5th May - Sat 26th May 2007
"New Pots"
Solo exhibition featuring stoneware pottery by
Phil Rogers
Also new paintings by watercolourist
Ian Cruickshank, Blown Glass by
Karinna Sellars and
Dean Hopkins and other professional house artists.
The celebrity ceramics expert Henry Sandon will be opening the May exhibition at The Gallery at Bevere near Worcester.
The exhibition features the work of Phil Rogers, one of the country's premier stoneware potters. Now at the height of his powers, Phil will show once again how tradition and contemporary sensibilities can be combined.
Phil, who is a Fellow and past Chair of the Craft Potters Association, has exhibited extensively both in the UK and overseas while his pots are held in more than forty public collections in the UK, USA, Canada, Germany, Holland, Israel, Japan and Korea.
Working from his studio in Rhayader in Powys, Wales, most of his pots are thrown and often manipulated whilst a proportion are press-moulded. Approximately half are salt-glazed while the remainder are fired in a large downdraught reduction kiln, making extensive use of wood ash and various local materials for the glazes. A three-chambered, wood-fired climbing kiln is the latest addition to the repertoire. He has also conducted many workshops for potters in the UK and overseas and he holds an exhibition in the USA every other year.
The manufacture of Salt glazed pottery first began in 14th Century Germany and spread to England by the late 15th Century. By the end of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth Century Salt Glazing became widely used in industry to produce millions of cheap utilitarian wares such as ink or Ginger Beer bottles.
Phil is author of three books: "Ash Glazes", "Salt Glazing" and "Throwing Pots", while a book is being published in the United States by the Pucker Gallery of Boston, "But this time the book is about me rather than by me!" said Phil. "It's published in May and called simply "Phil Rogers - potter."
Phil continued, "My exhibition at The Gallery at Bevere features a representative selection of my current work. For the future, I have just won a major award to fund research and learning regarding my new wood-fired kiln. I made a case to the Welsh Arts Council and was rewarded with a "Creative Wales Award". This was presented to me at the Senedd, the building in Cardiff in which the Welsh Assembly meets. The award has taken away the worry of having to produce pots commercially while I learn about my new kiln and develop my work."
In March, Phil was invited to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London where a tea bowl - a 'chawan' - was gifted to the Victoria by the gallery he works with in the USA - an honour and mark of his status as one of the UK's premier potters.
Featured Artist
Malvern-based artist Ian Cruickshank 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...
The works of other professional house artists also feature in the exhibition providing a variety of styles and mediums.
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