I have now completed a Fine Art Professional Development Diploma and 3D Design & Ceramic Craft Diploma at Cornwall College concluding four years of study. I have subsequently exhibited at the Hidden Art Cornwall Design Fair and the Bernard Leach Craft Fair.
My work is developing gradually without being forced. I work with Cornish stoneware clay using hand building and wheel thrown techniques. I prefer a stoneware ceramic body decorated with a simple personal palette of handmade glazes of blue, white and black. My work is finished off with a high gloss surface with mark making taking the eye around the piece. The form is functional, organic, and abstract, employing heightened symmetry and tension.
I experiment with the language of Abstract Expressionism as I enjoy lines of industrial and mechanical design. Individual pieces can be added-to and re-assembled to make a collection. I enjoy amassing and assembling work pieces, uncommon pieces with a lively, instinctive and robust substance.
Price range: £60-£120
Forthcoming Shows
Creative Skills, Open Studios, Jubilee Wharf, Penryn, Falmouth,
Sat 24 May – Sun 1 June 2008. Open everyday 11-5. www.creativeskills.org.uk
2007
Bernard Leach Ceramics Art Market, Leach Pottery Support Group Show, St. Ives
Hidden Art Cornwall Design Fair, Godolphin House, Helston, Cornwall
Physicality, Badcocks Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
2006
Spontaneous Combustion, Cornwall Crafts Association, Trelowarren, Cornwall
Bernard Leach Ceramics Art Market, Leach Pottery Support Group Show, St. Ives
Colour Fusion Summer Exhibition, Cornwall College
2005
Summer Exhibition, Cornwall College
2004
Penzance Art School Summer Exhibition
2007 “Physicality”, Badcocks Gallery, West Briton, 7 February
“Physicality”, Badcocks Gallery, Cornishman, 14 February
2005
“Cornwall College Show”, West Briton, 23 June
Over the Moon Gallery, Churchtown, St. Agnes, Cornwall
Over the Moon Gallery, St, Just, Penwith, Cornwall
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