Laffan, Andy
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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…
Landreau, Jean-paul
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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’…
Lane, Malcolm
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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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Lane, Peter
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Peter describes himself as “basically a vessel-maker”, although he is interested more in form and surface than function in the work he produces. Much of his stimulus comes from his love of natural forms and landscape. He has become particularly well-known for his carved and/or pierced porcelain bowls, several of which are in important public collections…
Layton, Peter
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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…
Le Corre, Gilles
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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
Leach, John
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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…
Lee, Jo
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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…
Lewin-cadogan, Jan
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NATURAL CONNECTIONS
Jan Lewin-Cadogan is a ceramic artist who lives and works in the beautiful valleys of West Wales. Having studied Ceramic Fine Art at The West Wales School of Art in Carmarthenshire, she holds a First Class Honours degree and is currently represented by galleries in both Wales and England…
Lewis, Jacqueline B
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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.
Lewis, Leon
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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…
Lillerman, Sue
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Sue recycles in a different way. She keeps interesting shaped glass bottles and makes moulds and remakes the shapes with clay, altering each one by using different types of clay, changing the shapes slightly so that each ‘recycled’ bottle is different. She finishes some of her work by burnishing then fires to bisque…
Littlechild, Sue
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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”.
Lossock, Neil
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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.”
Lovell, Andy
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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.
Lungley, Martin
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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…
Lynn, Trudy
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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…