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| Steve Hay
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An interested amateur member of SPA, of many years evening classes, working to amuse myself when my full time job leaves some spare time. I enjoy reading about and seeing other makers' work, professional and amateur. I only have limited facilities of my own - clay, wheel and hobby kiln - but I really enjoy the escape of my grown up "mud pie reveries" and the simple pleasures and frustrations of creating with clay. I have run out of relations and sympathetic friends, so any usable output goes to charity shops.
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| Karen James
Recent work exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama was inspired by students’ performances. It has afforded me the opportunity to diversify from 3 D, sculptural female forms (‘fleshpots’-‘plump, curvaceous nudes’), to 2 D, wall-hung ceramics. My fleshpots serve to explore colour, movement and form, whereas these new pieces allow me freedom to play with texture, materials and technique as well as composition.
I make my own paperclay, fire to cone 01 and finish with oil pastels.
Based in Glasgow, my work is exhibited throughout Scotland.
(0141) 639-9026
Other photographs: Song, You Spin Me
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| Ruth Elizabeth Jones
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Two distinct ranges are available.
Gallery pieces consisting of one-off work including thrown sculptural oval bowls fired to stoneware and decorated with a gold metalic finish and sculptural ammonite forms either smoke-fired and suitable for in- doors only or decorated with metalic oxides, fired to stoneware and suitable for the house and garden.
Hand thrown ceramics. This range is hand-thrown on a traditional kick wheel and reflects Ruth's interest in ancient ceramic forms. Decorated with specially prepared orange, deep blue, olive and warm honey glazes and fired to earthenware.
Influences include Beaker pottery, Moravian and Bohemian antiquities, Romano-British and Medieval ceramics and Staffordshire slipware. Forms include tea-bowls, dishes, jugs, urns, platters, and amphora.
Other photographs: Smoke-fired Ammonite, Earthenware Jugs
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| Daniel Kavanagh
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Daniel works from his studio / gallery in Glenferness on the edge of the Cairngorm National Park, where he produces ceramic work and bronze sculpture.
Contemporary design and elegance of line are beautifully evident in Daniels work, his ability to interpret the Highland landscape through the constant evolution of new ceramic forms and fresh colours. Producing work that demonstrates a high quality of craftsmanship.
Daniel is also inspired by ancient Roman pottery, Japanese ceramics and the art and architecture of east Asia.
Ceramic work includes some pieces being thrown on the wheel and then formed using several different sections.
Application of metallic lustres to the fired surface illuminate both the richness and reflective quality of the materials used creating an opulent feel to the work.
New work fuses the use of ceramics and bronze in an innovative and striking way.
Daniel has a small gallery space adjacent to his studio which is open all year round by appointment or please visit the website for more details on exhibitions, stockists and open studio events.
Prices begin at £35-300
Daniel welcomes commissions
Milltown
Glenferness
Nairnshire
IV125UP
01309651233
Other photographs: Sea Green Vessel with cast bronze handle, Tall Vase on Stand with Gold lustre.
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| Jane Kelly
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Raised in New Zealand and London, I trained as a potter at Wimbledon, Norwich and Medway Colleges of Art under Tony Gant, David White, Colin Metcalfe, Peter Phillips, Siddig el Ngoumi and others. Within a few years of moving north to Portobello with my growing Scots family, I established a studio pottery in the centre of Penicuik.
In Edinburgh in the mid seventies I first set up pottery classes for adults at Cannonball House and taught there and at Infirmary Street for thirty years; I also teach regularly from my Penicuik pottery and at the Garvald community. But in many schools and art colleges the teaching of pottery has been brought to an end, and indigenous pottery manufacture becomes harder and harder to find.
Enthusiasm among lovers of craft pottery is strong in Scotland and New Zealand. With annual summer schools and occasional special pottery events at my Valleyfield House studio in Penicuik, I also exhibit each November at Penicuik Arts Centre and have shown with Scottish Potters at Broughton, Dunfermline, Glasgow, Nairn, Stirling, Perth and Milngavie.
I concentrate on thrown pots: useful wares like jugs, teapots, mugs, cups, plates and bowls, saltshakers and butterdishes. Unusual recent commissions include Dalhousie Castle Hotel and the Traverse Theatre.
Other photographs: biscuit jars drying, copper glazed jug
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| Ludmilla Kosmina
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I design and create one-off ceramic sculptures of people with humorous qualities, all of which capture the observed essence of human behaviour. Each piece is hand made. The pieces are made using crank clay, glazed and fired in electric kiln to 1260 ºC. All pieces are unique in both form and personality, I try to capture the personality rather than make an exact representation. Inspiration stems from observing people around me - during holidays, concerts, meetings, shopping, and during travel.
Other photographs: Photograph 2, Photograph 3
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