TWENTY2020
an exhibition of ceramics
by 20 ceramicists
Saturday 5th to Saturday 19th December 2020
Open 10-4.30pm
Twenty 2020 Ceramics Exhibition
A select group of ceramicists and potters have come together to show their work, the first of its kind to be held at the Jack House Gallery. The exhibition will comprise work from twenty artists working in clay based throughout the south of England in this unique show. The exhibits show a large variety of ceramic art - functional, sculptural and decorative – representing a unique range of styles using this medium.
TWENTY2020 - The Ceramicists
Sandra Bidmead
I make hand built, ceramic sculptures, inspired by wildlife. My creatures all have their own personality and a touch of quirky humour.
sandra.bidmead@googlemail.com
Lola Claeys Bouuaert
Most of my ceramics are hand-built in stoneware, and then burnished for a very smooth finish. After bisque firing, the pieces are smoke-fired overnight in sawdust and other natural materials (leaves, flowers, ferns). The smoke prints the plants onto the burnished surface of the ceramic. The pieces are then cleaned and polished with a protective wax. Each piece is unique, tactile, retaining the scent and patina of wood smoke. Some of my pieces are raku-fired. I love the element of surprise from both firing techniques.
lolaclaeysbouuaert@gmail.com, www.lola-claeys-bouuaert.com, @lolacbceramics
Wendy Brenan
I have been a studio potter making functional, thrown and hand built pots for the past 20 years. I have been particularly inspired by 'waves', feeling that the whole universe is made up from waves whether gravitational waves, sound and light waves or merely waves from Hayling beach where I have spent most of my life.
w.brenan@hotmail.co.uk
Nigel Hobbs
I have been a potter for well over 30 years training, initially, at the then named Farnham Art School, now UCA. I concentrate my work mainly on the art of Raku firing alongside my stoneware thrown work. My passion for design versus serendipity is reflected in my work.
www.nigelhobbsceramics.co.uk
Alissa Knight
I am of Russian background and Russian Folk Art from early childhood has had an influence. Surface decoration on clay, playing with layering glazes, slips, under glazes and firing a vessel several times to bring out variations of colour have become integral to my ceramic work. My work is often textured with an introduction of oxides as an under layer to the glazes producing busy curlicues, and brash colours for a strong visual impact. I attempt a contemporary take on the energy and joie de vivre of Russian traditions, working in stoneware, as well as black smooth and textured clay to conjure the Russian ‘Palech’ black lacquer wares.
alissa@alissaknight.uk, www.alissaknight.uk
Deborah Kolios
My name is Deborah Kolios, I am a handbuilder using slab, coiling and pinch methods. I try to portray movement in my pieces, which are inspired mostly by the natural world.
acgirl21@gmail.com
Cabby Luxford
Clay is such a wonderful material to work with and responds in so many ways with the maker. I love to use the bare material combined with alternative firing methods including raku and Indian Smoke firing. I am inspired by aged artefacts and nature’s transformations on man made and organic forms.cabbyattilecottage@gmail.com
Lyson Marchessault
The female figures came out of playing with clay dug from rivers, gardens and grounds around me. Some have been fired to a low temperature, some have only been bisqued to really let the colour come through and some are left raw - for the material and the figure to speak for themselves. They feel to me like they all have their own personalities and there’s a certain fragility to them that makes them feel somehow more precious and need to be attended to with care.
larochepottery@gmail.com, @larochepottery
Heather Muir
I make hand thrown, functional and decorative vessels using porcelain clay. The textures and colours I create are inspired by patterns and colours in nature. Each piece is thrown as thinly as possible on a potters wheel. When leather hard the porcelain is turned to finish the form. The surface texture is created with brushed slips and glazes are applied by dipping or spraying. I make my glazes from raw materials and carry out multiple tests to achieve the right colours and translucency that work best with the decoration.
heather1muir@gmail.com, www.heathermuirpottery.com, @heathermuirporcelain
Margaret Newton
I make ceramic birds & creatures. My sculptures are given a smoke-firing. This creates a palette of black/grey/white marks. This is achieved by burnishing the sculptures then kiln-firing them to 1000oc. After this I paint on a coarse clay to resist the black smoke of the following smoke-firing or leave areas to become black. When cool, this layer is peeled off and the marks revealed.
margaret.ntn@btinternet.com
Lynn Nicholls
I started my career as a set designer for the BBC before teaching in several Hampshire colleges. I am a member and studio holder at ArtSpace Portsmouth and exhibit with the Southern Ceramics Group. I make functional, thrown or slab built decorative earthenware. The surface is loosely worked in layers of colour then reworked before using freestyle drawing to create abstract decorative imagery.
lynn.nicholls1@gmail.com , @Southsea_mudlark
Neil Rampton
Symmetry, light and shade, sometimes with added distortion. These are my current themes of exploration. From strong coloured wall plaques in frames (more ceramic art than "pottery"), through carved naked clay vases, to purposefully distorted cubes - all metamorphosing as their illumination alters......
neil@rampton.org.uk, www.ceramicintentions.co.uk, @ceramic_intentions
Suzanne Rampton
My work explores the expression of the inner world of the felt sense. A mind body connective response translated into physical form in clay: If an inner feeling could be expressed in shape and texture what it would look like in form. The smooth and purposeful cracking textures representative of the ebb and flow of the mind body connection in physical form. They represent a moment of free child freedom, thought or emotion transcribed and captured into clay.
suzanne@rampton.org.uk, www.ceramicintentions.co.uk, @suzannerampton
Vasu Reddy
I have been exploring unglazed or ash glazed surfaces with disrupted and broken patterns. I make mostly functional ware, most often reduction-fired (that is, fired in an oxygen deprived atmosphere which makes magic with the clay and the surfaces). I also love making little things – miniature pots and forms – which are as difficult to make as very big things, but seem to touch something primitive in us.
vasureddyceramics@gmail.com, www.potsandbellies.co.uk, @vasureddyceramics
Helen Scribbans
All my work is hand-built, using slabs, coils and pinch pots. My inspiration comes from natural forms and also from a love of textiles and fashion. I specialise in Raku firing, a traditional Japanese method where glaze is applied to the pot and fired outdoors in a gas kiln.
helenscribbans@icloud.com, www.helenscribbans.co.uk, @helenscribbansceramics
Patricia Shearing
Working with clay is completely immersive for me, releasing me from day to day stresses and fears. I am Autistic and I try to express that in some of my work, incorporating different textures representing emotional vulnerabilities hidden beneath an apparently tough exterior.
studio56ceramics@gmail.com, www.studio56ceramics.com,
Vidya Thirunarayan
As my original training is in classical Indian dance, my work in clay is very much informed by the dancer in me. Created from earthenware clay, all exhibits aim to capture movement, both in its elegant and quirky moments. The surface designs are inspired by Indian textiles and powder drawings called Kolam. The functional pots are wheel- thrown intending to make the everyday living, elegant and special.
vidyathiru@hotmail.com, www.vidyathirunarayan.com, @tccdancingpots
Jo Tricklebank
Working with clay for me is both fun and therapeutic. My work is influenced by nature, erosion and passage of time and this material and the numerous techniques available give me a wonderful formula for that to happen .
johannatricklebank@yahoo.co.uk
Caroline Wadhams
Liu Qian: I make hand thrown ceramic pieces which evolve continuously. My work is influenced by my Chinese culture upbringing and my ongoing inquiries about in-between culture identities and related experiences.
QianCeramics@gmail.com, www.qianceramics.com, @carolinewadhams ( Liu Qian)
Gill Waller
I love the idea of pregnant forms bursting with inner life and the geometric patterns nature has created which emphasis the form. This interest gave rise to my Zebra Jazz series. Porcelain slab pots decorated with dancing lines of black slip. Most recently, I have been working in Earthenware, decorating my slab pots with brightly coloured sips; playing with contrasting lines and shapes. These are influenced by the 20th century painters I have always admired like Picasso and Matisse.
gwgillwaller@gmail.com, http://www.axfordceramics.co.uk/