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
“Songs are like tattoos, you know I’ve been to sea before. Crown and anchor me or let me sail away” words by Joni Mitchell written on the wooden base. The figure and stool I made separately but being able to balance at a jaunty angle it was her perfect seat all anchored together as one piece.
Height: ??cm
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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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MAVIS
Craft Crank a very forgiving clay and I used this to slab build Mavis. The idea for her grew from a cookie jar made in 1968. Stoneware fired.
Height: ?cm
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GLADYS
GLADYS like all my other girls had a vase open top. She reminded me of my dad’s Aunt Min. Coloured with slips and oxides and Stoneware fired.
Height: ?cm
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The Northgrid Project
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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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.
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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
