CERAMICS
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CERAMICS
It was in my last term on my Foundation Course at Harrow School of Art that I discovered my love of working with clay. Little did I know in the basement was the pottery department, if only I had walk down the stairs.
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THE BLUE DOG
Hand-built on base, coloured with Manganese and Cobalt Oxide and Amaco Velvet Underglaze.
Limited glaze on his teeth, eyes and earsLength: 39cm
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MARIE ANTOINETTE
“Let Them Eat Cake” 9 hand-built queens emerged from their thrown-based skirts. These are coloured with Amaco Velvet Underglaze, limited glaze on hats, beads and cakes, and earthenware fired.
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ROXANNE
“ You Don’t Have to Turn on Your Red Light”
One of a group of stoneware figures that I named after a song. Manganese oxide and red glaze on beads.Height: ??cm
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HELLO SAILOR
The figure and capstan seat were made separately but balanced at a jaunty angle and now all anchored together as one piece on the wooden base. Fired earthenware and coloured with Amaco underglaze with limited glaze on beads and toenails.
Height: 34cm
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LILY SAWTELL DESIGN
In the 1980s I enrolled at evening classes at Bristol School of Art, a similar Victorian building to Harrow. Playing with clay again I started building my quirky ladies. MAVIS and GLADYS were the first ones but the family grew and were taking over our house.
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MY BACK PAGES
Back in the late 60s, I went it Caerleon College of Education and spent a whole term in the pottery department. Being a sculptor I started hand-building a set of chess pieces and upset my tutor by completing the full number of pieces. And I also made my female Cookie Jar heavily influenced by the Venus of Willendorf from a Palaeolithic site.
