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I have worked with clay since my college training in Belfast where I studied ceramics and printed textiles. In my first workshop I made functional stoneware, which is what we learned to make in the sixties! Later I made small high-fired porcelain pieces, thrown, carved and very simply glazed.
I now make raku fired porcelain, thrown and slab built which is sprayed with coloured slips, burnished and fired to about 1000c. The work is decorated with resin lustres using various masking and painting techniques, fired around 800c and smoked in fine sawdust. I often fire pieces several times adding layers of lustre at each firing, and re smoking.
Most recently I have been doing some work with saggar firing using salt, copper and cobalt sulphate, sawdust and sand.
I have taken photographs and kept sketch books over many years and sources of inspiration are gathered from ethnic and archaeological collections, textiles, landscape to modern sculpture and architecture. It is important to me that the work has a pleasing tactile quality, and depth and richness of colour, enhanced by the firing and smoking processes.
Contact
annejames37@waitrose.com
01452 813378
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