Ceramics at Cecilia Colman Gallery


Ceramics at Cecilia Colman Gallery

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Paul Jackson

Paul qualified in Studio Ceramics in 1977 at Harrow School of Art. Following a short period teaching in
London, he relocated to Cornwall, where he established his pottery in 1979. He moved to
his present address at Helland Bridge in 1989. He has exhibited regularly
and widely in both the UK and US.

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Sotis Fillipides

Sotis Filippides was born in Athens, Greece and was educated at the Athens
School of Ceramics and gained a Degree in Ceramics.

Sotis first displayed his work at the Annual Greek Ceramics Exhibition in Athens in 1982 and has
participated in the exhibition every year since. He moved too England in 1984 in
order to experiment with English materials.

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David Allnatt

David makes a range of individual non-functional ceramics, which he mostly fires to stoneware.
All of his work is hand-built by a combination of press moulding and coiling. Most of his work
is based on vessel forms, although his recent work has become more sculptural.
David has developed a number of glazes which give a dry, matt finish.
He paints, sprays and sponges these glazes onto the surface, using different glaze
combinations he varies the finished texture and colour.
The surfaces he tries to achieve are inspired by objects that have 
been eroded, weathered or corroded.

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Carolyn Genders

I make sculptural ceramic vessels that explore the integration of surface and texture with form. Some pieces 
have textured surfaces that interact with the play of light accentuating shape. Other pieces have 
colored and linear surfaces that create a feeling of rhythm and movement emphasizing form.
Distinctive cut and shaped rims draw attention to the interior volume. 

Rather that relying on conscious 'inspiration' the basis of my work comes from within, an intuitive feeling for 
a particular shape and surface. Rocks, pebbles and the human form, marks made by certain painters 
and sculptors are all visual evidence and support of shapes and surfaces already loved.

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Tony Foard

Tony was born in Cornwall but has spent most of his life in Kent. He has been a full time
potter for over twenty years His present studio is at his home address near
Maidstone where he works in both stoneware and raku.

Tony works in collaboration with his silversmith friend Michael Bolton who designs
the Jewellery for some of the figures. This varies in complexity from a single silver bead to elaborate
silver and gold collars that looked stunning against the smoked clay.

 Inspiration for the figures comes from various sources such as native African women,
fashion models and the work of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. His 
recent raku bowls with their rolled and burnished rims have 
also been influenced by African pots.

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Sue Hanna

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Virginia Dowe

Virginia creates a range of sculptural ceramic animals. Her passionate and lively approach observes 
well the attitudes of these creatures, and their individual characters are captured with 
a sense of fun and directness.
  
Virginia uses earthstone hand building material mixed with varying consistencies of 
grog skillfully manipulating both extruded and slab forms.  

Her pieces have a natural and unrefined aesthetic appeal provided by smoke firing.


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Ben Arnup

Ben Arnup produces ceramics that explore the nature of depth. The description of perspective 
offers design parameters where colour and proportion, texture and 
illusion, can blend with or contradict each other.

The pots are slab built, usually with coloured slips with ash wood, ash glazes and fired to 1280�C as 
reduced stoneware. The slips provide controlled colours, whilst the reduction 
fired glazes provide variety in finish and colour.

The work is influenced by Paul Browns pottery, Ben Nicholson and Le Corbusier, 
as well as pre-renaissance Italian art and architecture.


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Rob Whelpton

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Sue Dyer

Recently, I have been influenced by Ikebana, The Arts of Japanese Flower Arranging,
which I have studied for several years. Together with this and the influence of other Japanese Art, I have explored
the use of asymmetrical forms using the natural colour of stoneware and porcelain clay, enhanced by stained inlay decoration.

Parallel to the development of larger sculptural forms and in contrast, I have used porcelain, producing
a limited range of vases in various shades, individually inlayed with linear designs. The shapes are developed to compliment
one another, yet are sculptural pieces in their own right, embodying purity of line and elegant simplicity.

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Maria Stewart

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Tim Gee

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Ann Marie Marshall

Anne-Marie's work is based on the sketches of animals she draws from her home environment in the New Forest 
and her visits to zoos and wildlife parks. This summer she was able to study the wild life of Kenya.

Her pieces are made from rolled T-material or red earthenware. They are decorated with oxides and dry stone glazes.
My work was originally inspired by the animals around me in my home environment of the New Forest,
but I have also spent two summers on safari in Africa where I was able to study
the wildlife in it's natural environment.

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