Artists - Winter Exhibition – Black and White Nov & Dec 2007 |
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Viv Allen Elements in nature and landscape often seem to repeat and yet on closer inspection reveal variation and individuality. Viv aims to capture these qualities in her work. She has produced a series of abstracted forms in clay that observe this near-repetition. |
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Tim Andrews His distinctive smoke fired raku ceramics have gained him an International reputation. His black and white collection uses resist glazing to achieve the linear decoration. His work is fired in a ‘top hat’ glass fibre kiln and removed to a smoking chamber when red-hot. Tim is a Fellow of the CPA and is a published artist. |
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Karin Bablok
International award winner Karin Bablok balances form with line, light, and severity within her porcelain forms. She cuts and reassembles thrown porcelain to create new forms that are finished with a basalt glaze. |
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Alison Gautrey Alison’s work we have on show this season captures the feeling of movement within the simplicity of form. Her work is the result of spinning porcelain casting slip into a mould to produce unique, translucent, egg shell porcelain. |
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Angela Mellor Landscape light and costal environments all feature in my work. Of primary concern, is an exploration of the light emitting qualities of bone china. A collaboration with a lighting designer has helped me to see my work literally ‘in a new light’ - not just as works of art or sculpture, but also as objects of light. |
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Jane Perryman Jane Perryman is a widely published award winning ceramicist. We are pleased to present her work this season. Jane’s forms consider the dynamic between tension and balance often through the positioning of pieces in relation to one another. |
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Antonia Salmon Drawing inspiration from the natural world Antonia Salmon uses hand burnishing and smoke firing in her work. She seeks to embody contemplation and quiet through the subtlety of her materials. |
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Sarah-Jane Selwood Edinburgh based ceramicist Sarah-Jane has exhibited as far a field as Japan, Los Angeles and Korea. Her smooth forms are executed with methodical precision resulting in forms are full of mysterious, brooding beauty. |
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Susan Slegg Sue’s sculptures are often integrated with wood, metal or glass. The work currently on show marries smoke fired ceramics with wood in it’s raw state. She has an experimental approach to forms that leads to work retaining an organic look and the pieces on show retain this sympathetic relationship between the materials. |
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Joanna Still Joanna Still’s vessels have been thrown on the potter’s wheel and worked over many times to refine the form. The work is burnished and then smoke fired without glazing. The finished vessel is full of character in which the transforming process of the fire is evident. |
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Andrew Wicks Since graduating from The Royal College of Art, Andrew has gone on to exhibit widely in Britain. His porcelain pieces are created from slip casts employing water etching to enhance the delicacy of the clay. In contrast, the internal surfaces are given a gloss finish. |
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Ana Robinson
Ana’s cast glass work is conceptually based, using ideas and images which draw on places and events around her. Some of her current work has been related to her personal experiences and feelings. She is drawn by the translucency, fragility and hidden strengths of glass. |
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Ewa Wawrzyniak |
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Paintings / Prints / Photography |
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John Dillistone Since moving to the area John Dillistone has taken a figurative approach to his print work. He has been inspired by the architecture of the area sketching such monumental buildings as Ely and Lincoln Cathedrals. He is also an accomplished organist that has an impact on his artistic outlook. “I find cogent links between the elements of those buildings, such as line and texture, and the works of Jackson Pollock and J.S.Bach” |
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Claire Johnson Claire’s delightful illustrations give life to the winter landscape. With woodland creatures nesting in homes among the tree roots, these original pen and ink drawings are beautifully reminiscent of the childhood imagination. |
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Colin Jones
Colin’s work is inspired by constructive art. The paintings he presents this season have a considered approach to form and application of paint that conveys essences of architecture and industry. left: four part invention 'jazz' (detail). |
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Nick Mellor |
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| Margot Perryman
Margot’s paintings are included in some of Britain’s most prized art collections including The Tate Gallery and The Fitzwilliam Museum. Her work resonates with light and colour to give a visual experience that is open to personal interpretation. |
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Wood Sculpture |
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Tina Ashdown Tina’s work engages with natural materials in an effort to explore how living organisms have complex yet balanced relationships. This season we are delighted to present some of her hand embellished bog oak sculptures. |
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Jewellery |
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Marta Donaghey Marta’s early training as a silversmith was alongside George Grant. Today she manages Contemporary Ceramics in London. She has exhibited widely throughout the UK. |
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Dorothy Erickson
All the way from Western Australia, her inspired designs will be a talking point this Christmas. Delicately crafted metals and beads form delicate, often intricate, and asymmetrical designs. |
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Ann Farag Anne’s work is influenced by cultures that tend to use pattern and decoration to a greater degree. Elements of pattern are visible in her jewellery that we present this season; etched into the silver and enhanced with patterned beads. |
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Ruth Gordon
Inspired by the confectioner’s window, Ruth Gordon’s jewellery is both bold and unique. She works with a broad range of materials from plastics to pearls, combining them to create striking one off pieces that will cause a stir. |
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Claire Lowe
We present Claire’s winter collection to you. Her new work uses tea leaves as a theme. She has set these into clear and white resins to create striking and thoroughly modern jewellery. She also presents us with a modern adaptation of the charm bracelet. |
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Jessica Preston Textile Designer Jessica Preston presents an array of brooches and decorations in this years winter show. She uses intricately folded fabrics to construct her designs and uses contrasting fabrics to highlight the folded line that is the essence of these handmade pieces. |
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Bettina Starke Bettina has established a following in Europe and America through regular exhibitions at home and abroad. Bettina prefers functional parts of her work to be integral to the whole. She works in silver and precious stones and is a JM Platinum Award Winner. |
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Metalwork / Enamel |
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Claire Malet Inspired by fractured and eroded elements of nature, Claire Malet’s work transforms reclaimed metal into something unique. Her vessels are worked into by hand and richly gilded. |
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Janine Partington
Janine offers us a series of enamel pictures this season in a complimentary black and white theme. Her work plays on pattern and line as she extracts motifs from nature and immortalises them using techniques of glaze and resist. |
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Textiles |
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