Wake , Cat
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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…
Wale, Peter J
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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…
Waller, Carole
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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…
Walter, Josie
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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…
Walton, Gary
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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….
Walton, Sarah
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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…
Ward, Camilla
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My work is linked to painting.
I use the ceramic surface as a canvas for my response to a literal and abstract, personal landscape. I love the spontaneity and mark making quality of clay. I hope to make the work approachable and tactile, in opposition to the “hands-off” and precious association of fine ceramics. Hence, the tension of a matt exterior against the glazed interior. …
Weight, Amanda
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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…
Wesselman, Frans
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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…
Westermann , Gilda
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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…
Whapples, Sarah
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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…
Wheeldon, John
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The last few years have seen him return to using lustre, this time applied to a terra sigillata surface, raku fired and smoked. The combination of gold and smoked polished terra sigillata is irresistible – a rich sensuous surface.
He feels that above all he is a potter who responds primarily to materials and processes…
White, David
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After a career in teaching art in Midlands’ Schools, David White retired early and became a full-time artist in 1996.
David is an elected Member of The Easel Club, The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and The Birmingham Art Circle of which he is currently Vice-President.
Much of his recent work has used geometric man-made forms alongside organic qualities in landscape…
White, Jane Alison
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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…
White, Steve
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A Kandinsky exhibition in London provoked Steve into art. He reacted, as many people do when they see abstract art – ‘I could do that’. He became a big fan of the semi abstract style of artists such as David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Fernand Leger, Tom Wesselmann and Bob Kessel.
After ten years perfecting his art Steve stumbled across Reflexionism on a sailing holiday in Croatia….
White, Tom
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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…
Whittall, John
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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…
Whittington, Gilly
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Potter who specialises in thrown and hand built pieces using crater glazes
Wickham, Kate
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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…
Wightman, Kathryn
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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’…
Wilhelm, Christiane
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Since 1987, Christiane has lived and worked in Munich in her own studio. This is where her ceramic objects in stoneware and porcelain, vessels and sculptural work, are created.
Williams, Catherine
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“I studied Fine Art at the University of the West of England, graduating in 1997 when I received the Rebecca Smith Award for Printmaking. In 2001 I completed a Master’s degree in multi-disciplinary Printmaking also at UWE, and received a Printmakers council award in my final year of study…
Williams, Pierre
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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…
Willis, Rod
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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…
Wolfe Murray, Tessa
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Tessa Wolfe Murray is a Brighton-based potter producing Jewellery and one-off, slab-built and slip-cast pots
Wong, Sue
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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.”
Wood, Gary
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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”…
Wood, John
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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…
Wood, Rachel
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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…
Woodhead, Steve
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Stev has been potting since 1980 and became a fellow of the Craft Potters Association in 1993.
Steve makes a range of hand thrown domestic stoneware. The great chefs on TV have created a move back to the kitchen to enjoy great food and have fun preparing it. His new range of classic domestic ware has been designed to embrace this new environment…
Wright , Hollie
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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…