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Works in red and white stoneware and paperclay, reduction fired in a gas kiln. Vessel-oriented individual pieces are entirely hand-built, with sprayed glazes and brushed decoration, emphasizing surface texture. Typical forms made are large round and square plates, jugs, sculptural teapots and coffee-pots, large bowls and bottles, boat-shaped vases and decorative wall pieces.
Profile
'Being a musician as well as a potter, I bring into my ceramic work the same creative process which lies behind Improvisation in music: the spontaneity and intuitive 'free-ness' of the moment of creation. I like to leave impressed in clay the immediacy of this process, in texture and in form.'
Has works in private and public collections in Britain, Holland, France, Spain, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and Brazil.
Fellow -Member of the Craft Potters Association.
Training
Richmond College 1978-80; Goldsmiths College, Post-Graduate Dip. in Art and Design 1981-84
Current Outlets
-Contemporary Cearamics, Craft Potters Shop and Gallery, 7 Marshall St. London W1V 1LP
-Rye Art Gallery, 107 High St, Rye, TN3 7JE
-European Makers, Spiegelgracht 2a, Amsterdam
-Gallery St. Ives, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Selected Exhibitions and Awards
1987- 'Tokoname Ceramic Festival', Tokoname, Japan
1994- 'Clay Improvisations', Solo Exhibition, Harlequin Gallery, L
'Studio Ceramics 94', Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1996-'20th Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award', New Zealand
1998- 'Celebration' Craft Potters Association 40th Anniversary Exhibition, QuayArts,
1999- 'Singing the Blues'- Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Devon
'Best of the East End'. Geffrey Museum, London
2001-'Painterly Pots', Brewery Arts, Cirencester/ Black Swan Guild, Frome
-Summer Show, Rye Art Gallery, Rye.
2002 -'Solo Exhibition'. Stark Gallery, London
2003-'British Ceramics' Gallery Yufuku, Tokyo and Art Salon Kogen, Nagoya, Japan
2004-Gladstone Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Public Collections
Tokoname Ceramic Institute, Tokoname, Japan
Gladstone Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
Ayuntament de Montblanc, Catalunya, Spain
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