Artwork for Tony Hall
Oil jars
Terracotta forcers
Garden pots
Terracotta bust
Stoneware vessels
Small ware
Fired at the Pottery
Big enough for trees
Details
How would you describe the work you do and why?:
I have spent all of my working life throwing 'big ware', making terracotta garden pots . The stoneware ceramics are my fine art and I love the chemistry of making all my own glazes . The portrait heads are a transferable skill they are about volume and measurement and modelling in clay.
For you what does being an artist mean?:
I have a skill and use it to make my living, I have the pottery studio and kilns to produce my own work independently.
Describe what you call yourself/your practice?:
I am a potter first and I like to paint and sculpt.
Your practice & activities include e.g workshops, teaching:
I run a regular Sunday class here at our studio in Knucklas from 12 noon.
CV & Education, relevant & leading to your artistic practice:
I trained in La Borne France
Exhibitions in the last 3 years:
The Table at Hay Gallery November 2020
Oriel Davies February 2020
Oriel Bleddfa 2019
Your gallery outlets/stockists:
At home in the studio for the big terracotta garden pots . Knighton Fine Arts.
