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Bryony Rich works with her parents, the ceramicists Simon and Catherine Rich in South West Wales. She is currently producing matt lustre Raku vases in two different sizes, and her more recent work is a combination of Terra sigillata and Raku using bismuth (gold) and copper glazes, on larger vessels with a twist. Also coloured stoneware on vases and bowls.
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Blue bowls
Large, 35cm diameter £160
Left, 12 cm diameter £35
Centre 15cm diameter £40
Right 21cm diameter £65
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Bowl, 30cm, Bottle, 12 x 7cm, right, and 11 x 9cm, left, £39 each
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Velvety textured pots
Foreground, 10 x 10cm
Background, 12 x 7cm £39 each
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For many years Simon Rich has been producing fine ceramics with his most distinctive glazes.
Upon leaving school, Simon looked for an outlet for his creative talents and joined the studio of the famous Alan Caiger-Smith at the Aldermarston Pottery. He remained there for five years before establishing himself with a series of exhibitions and shows.
Simon is primarily concerned with creating pleasing shapes and forms. He conjures up images in his mind and turns them over and over until they are ready to be brought into being. He likes to explore the full potential of any one shape, developing it and endeavouring to expand on its creative potential as much as possible. He stops short of extremes, however, as his aim is to create pottery of classical and harmonious beauty.
Simon excels at many techniques including terrasigilata, copper fumed raku, turquoise and azurite glazes and crystalline glazes. In the latter, the zinc crystal glaze is applied to porcelain and is made by melting sand, soda ash, alumina, zinc and flint into a glass compound. It is then ground to a fine powder. Before glazing an exact amount is weighed out for each pot and metal oxides are then added to produce the variety of colours that can be seen in the work. The firings vary according to the amount of colourant oxides and glaze adjustments. This produces constantly evolving glazes on the pieces making each one unique.
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Blue zinc oxide glazed bottles
Left, 32 x 17 x 17cm, £199
Centre, 13 x 9 x 9cm, £55
Right, 16 x 8 x 8cm, £55
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Blue bowls
Large, 28cm diameter, £115
Small, 17cm diameter, £39
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Green zinc oxide glazed bottles
Left, 32 x 16 x 16cm, £199
Centre, 16 x 11 x 11cm, £95
Right, 37 x 16 x 16cm, £199
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West Cornwall ceramicist, Carolle Blackwell’s Haniwa Ceramic Sculptures are at home both indoors and out. The clay sculptures are made from clay dug from Cornish clay pits near St Agnes. The character of the clay and the effects of the fire in the kiln are allowed to speak, as Carolle does not use glazes, preferring to add mineral oxides, to give earth colours.
Haniwa, as the sculptures are called, derives from a 6th century Japanese custom when clay cylinders were placed around the base of large burial mounds to prevent erosion. Over time, these cylinders were developed to incorporate figures and other everyday objects needed in the afterlife.
The sculptures come from a deep memory of an ancient world – relics of a past age, as if dug from the ground – hidden knowledge of other lifetimes. At the same time, the figures have a contemporary feel to them.
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Large piece, 52 x 13 x 13cm, £190
Small grotto, 15 x 13 x 13cm, £49
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Large piece, left 60 x 20 x 30cm, £199
Back right, 30 x 15 x 10cm, £89
Foreground figures 15 x 10 x 10cm, £49
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Paula Downing is a respected Cornish Potter and producer of hand made pottery and ceramics using coiling and slabbing techniques.
All the pottery and ceramics produced at Paula’s Cornish workshop are handmade with inspiration being drawn from the beautiful and dramatic Cornish landscape and coastline and the Cornish weather and light.
As all the pieces are made using either, coiling or slabbing techniques and finished by-hand, each item is truly unique in its design, form and finish. The pieces are strong enough to stand alone or in a group.
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Hand built ceramics – group 1
Tall form, 48 x 14 x 14cm £375
Medium form, 39 x 8 x 8 cm £245
Small form, 23 x 12 x 12cm £160
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Hand built ceramics – group 2
Tall form, 48 x 10 x 10cm £165
Medium form, 18 x 13 x 13cm £99
Jar with lid, 9 x 13 x 12cm £99
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stoneware coiled form
64 x 30cm £280 |
stoneware slab construction
32 x 29cm £375 |
stoneware slab construction
9 x 8cm £40 |
stoneware slab construction
22 x 8cm £95 |
stoneware coiled form
49.5 x 31cm £600 |
stoneware slab construction
£95 £40 £95 respectively |
stoneware coiled form
64 x 51cm £850 |
Viv Robertson studied ceramics in the 1960’s at Falmouth Art School and Bournemouth and Poole College of art. He then went on to become a teacher in Berkshire and ran a small studio pottery . He moved back to Cornwall in the 70’s and diversified into music and boats. This involved a lot of travel and his pottery interests were largely put on hold.
There was a brief period in the ‘80’s when he taught pottery in a training centre for young people.
“Now that I am firmly established back in Cornwall I have decided to return to ceramics and have converted my garage into a studio. I have managed to set it up on a shoestring with second–hand kiln and wheel and using the inspection pit as a clay store!
For the time being I am firing with electricity and producing mainly individual items; both thrown and hand-built; in oxidised stoneware. I hope, however, to do some reduction and possibly raku in the future.”
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Sentinal
54 x 37 x 13cm stoneware £310 |
Tidal Form
45cm (diameter) x 30cm (height) £275 |
Tidal Form II
39cm (diameter) x 20cm (height) £275 |
Slabbed and coiled stoneware group
Left, Metamoprphosis 50 x 11 x 10cm £185
Centre, Erupt 28 x 16 x 16cm £185
Right, Thrust 43 x 7 x 7cm £99 |
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Kathy Goodridge
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bowl with starfish detail
19.5 x 30 coastal inspired ceramics £80 |
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Sue Thompson |
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ceramic cat bowls
£45 SOLD £55 respectively |
ceramic cat vase & bowls
£195 £30 SOLD respectively |
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