Category Archives: Ceramics

An opportunity to create artwork inspired by a specific location and its history, is a great opportunity to exit the white-walled art gallery and create work that can truly inhabit the location of which it speaks. An invitation to participate in the project ‘New Work at Newark Park’ a collaboration between the Cotswold Sculptors AssociationContinue reading “Clay and contextualism at Newark Park”

To the casual passer-by, a fragment of pottery be it of a once richly-decorated dinner plate or a chunky fragment of a one-time flowerpot, does not get a second-glance or thought.  It was only due to my involvement in creating ceramic forms, that I even stopped to pull a small shard of fired terracotta from theContinue reading “Clay and provenance”

For most of my practice to date, my making has focussed on low-fire clays (local terracotta wild clay in particular).  Not only does this reflect the colours of the local geology that I find so inspiring, but also because firing earthenware clay demands less energy than stoneware or porcelain. Low firing also maximises my opportunity toContinue reading “When that perfect glaze is right under your feet”