CERAMICS FOR GIFTS AND INVESTMENT - VIBRANT HAND THROWN, SCULPTED ORIGINAL POTTERY HAND PAINTED WITH SLIPS & GLAZES - EXCLUSIVE TILES

Ceramics for gifts and investment. Vibrant hand thrown, sculpted, painted pottery can be viewed on this site. There is a gallery of past work as well as a shop from which items can be purchased. Both these sections can be used as a guideline to bespoke items that can be created specifically for you. They can be based on subjects as diverse as 'a favourite view', to a dragonfly, you can influence the design to commission a personalised gift for a birthday or special occasion such as a wedding. Your idea, pattern or theme can be used in the design of a plate or jug, perhaps a set of bowls, or even a series of tiles for a fireplace or special feature in your home.

INTERIOR DESIGNERS AND ARCHITECTS POTTERY

Interior Designers and Architects use either my individual work, which I research extensively, or group work to commemorate aspects of the history or features of a place or building for incorporation into a modern scheme.

I also facilitate workshops, where the work of individuals, making tiles or sculptures can be displayed together to form murals or features.

POTTERY

Pottery is still being excavated from the past and is one of the few materials that endures for centuries. Historically it is used to discover cultural and technical information about past civilisations. A Stoneware pot has the same chemical formula as felspathic rock. The clay is formed of this rock which is broken down by erosion and moved by water over millennia. The potter reforms the plastic clay, which is infinitely sensitive to his or her touch, feelings, individual style and vision in the process of its making.

When it is fired the molecular water is driven off, returning it to its original composition, an architecturally sound material- hard and strong enough to build with. When glaze is applied and the work returned to the kiln, everything is brought into the melt, adding an unknown factor to the magic of this elemental process. For me, this is a hugely exciting medium to work in, with infinite potential. Knowing that the work will last longer than a lifetime, it is an excellent choice for family heirlooms. Increasingly, Ceramic Art is being bought as an investment.

My work consists of one-off originals, or 'families of pots', each one individually hand thrown on the potter's wheel or hand sculpted and then hand painted and glazed- and is therefore unique. None are moulded or mass produced. I use several different types of clay, some coloured clays can only be fired to Earthenware temperature, remaining porous. Stoneware bodies such as crank are fired to a higher temperature rendering them frost proof for outdoor display, and resilient enough to be used in the oven.

As an artist I have many diverse interests conveyed through my work, This does not imply a lack of direction or focus, but is a dynamic response to all that is fascinating about life. The many different patterns I make are threads which I pick up and progress at intervals. The work on one type of piece will then naturally inform all subsequent work. I find also by moving away from one area for a time and then returning, that I have not only increased in technical experience, but often come at the same subject from a fresh viewpoint. Regardless of the starting point and within the dimensions of the brief, I can produce items in a multitude of shapes, sizes and colours, kiln space permitting.

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