Artwork for Tony Hall
Stoneware vessels
Tenmoku bottle with oil painting on panel
Portrait head of a girl in polychrome plaster
Terracotta forcers and Strawberry pots
100% frost proof hand thrown terracotta garden pots
Terracotta Olive tree pot
Hand thrown terracotta garden pots with terracotta head
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 . I make smaller stoneware ceramics and 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 morning class here in Knucklas 10 -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.
Venues Description:
Castle Hill Arts, venue 76
Venues Confirmed:
Yes
