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Title: Wallplate
Artist: Lincoln Kirby-Bell
Material: Ceramic, Slipware
Dimensions: Diameter: 51 cm, D: 7 cm
£ 340 SOLD
Ref.: LKB11
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Title: Small Slotted Vase
Artist: Christina Peters
Material: Ceramic, Raku-fired
Dimensions: H: 16.50 cm Diam: 8.50
£ 44
Ref.: CP6
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After graduating from Leicester Polytechnic in 1978 with a B.A. Hons. in three dimensional design, Janie received a Turkish Government scholarship to study Turkish Ceramics. Based in Istanbul, she travelled widely developing her interest in the fascinating art and culture of this extraordinary country. On return, she worked as an Archaeological Draftsperson at Dover Museum in Kent, drawing their collection of Medieval and Roman pottery for records and reports.
Since moving to Devon, she has been working in stoneware, making sculptural pieces and hand 
built vessels. Janie sometimes smoke fires her pieces and finds the immediacy of this method exciting and stimulating. Her inspiration and interest centres around the female nude and the dramatic moorland and coastal landscapes of Devon and Cornwall. Her time spent in Turkey, with its extraordinary range of antique and contemporary ceramics, and at the museum in Dover have had an underlying influence on all her creative endeavours.
To see work by Janie Ramsay in more detail, have a look in our online gallery.
Emma West’s ceramics are part of the textiles exhibition, even though the finished work is in porcelain, because her subtle and sketch like wall panels start as embroidery.
Emma West established her ceramics studio in 2000. What was planned as a career break from her work as an archivist soon became a full time passion. Although the world of historical manuscripts is behind her a sense of heritage and historical continuity filters through her work. Emma’s style and approach to porcelain is sensitive, she has developed a creative technique focussing on surface texture and impression, using glazes to emphasize design.
The use of textiles in Emma’s work is a relatively new departure. An embroidery ‘image’ is hand stitched, quite loosely, allowing threads to fall freely and give a ‘sketch’ quality to the piece. The embroidered cloth is then impressed into the unfired porcelain.
At this stage various freehand marks are made in the clay altering each piece. Glazes are subsequently applied to reveal the imprint bringing the permanence of porcelain to the fragility of a stitch. Whilst the colour palette is not broad it is classic; gradations of blues, greens, greys and turquoise underpin the subtle detail of the surface line.
Join us for your chance to meet the artists on Saturday October 19th from 3pm.
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Title: Slotted Vase
Artist: Christina Peters
Material: Ceramic, Raku-fired
Dimensions: H: 28 cm W: 23 cm to D: 9 cm
£ 199
Ref.: CP4
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Title: Container
Artist: Rebecca Harvey
Material: Ceramic, glazed
Dimensions: H: 11 cm Diam: 15cm
£ 58
Ref.: RH1
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We have had a delivery of wonderful new work by Frances Spice here in the gallery. Watch out for more in the online shop very soon. Why not subscribe to our updates to make sure, you don’t miss it.
Frances uses a white earthenware clay and her work is slab built, from a flat piece of clay she cuts out her desired shapes before assembling the pieces together. Underglazes, glazes, stains, oxides and gold lustre are all used to decorate her work, each piece is fired 2-4 times.
Frances’ work is always different and very imaginative. Her work is very well designed with subtle details. I really love these art jugs in the image above.
We have just had a new delivery of work by Nicola Crocker. Her wonderfully tactile and visually stunning stoneware rockpools and craggy pools are perfect for this weather. The colour evokes a sense of coolness and refreshment in summer and memories of the seaside in winter. Deceiving, they look like they are indeed filled with liquid.
Nicola Crocker’s work is inspired by the coastline and landscape in North Devon. Interested in the nature of the clay; the forms she can produce from it, the colours and how the two can work together.
You can find out more about Nicola and her work in our online shop.
Predominantly hand built stoneware, Janie’s work is fired to approximately 1180 -1200. It is decorated with coloured slips and wax resist and fired four or five times to 950 to achieve the desired surface texture. Janie uses various methods for building her pots, including modelling, coiling, slabbling and pinching. The pieces are then polished with bees wax to give them a less dry, more velvety quality and can be repolished whenever necessary.
Janie moved to Devon fourteen years ago. She graduated from Leicester Polytechnic in 1978 with a B.A. Hons. in three dimensional design (ceramics and glass): Whilst there, she focused mainly on mould-making and slip-casting techniques making bone china pieces based on natural forms. In 1979-80 Janie received a Turkish Government scholarship to study Turkish Ceramics. Based in Istanbul, she travelled widely developing her interest in the fascinating art and culture of this extraordinary country. On return, she worked as an Archaeological Draftsperson at Dover Museum in Kent, drawing their collection of Medieval and Roman pottery for records and reports.
Since moving to Devon, she has been working in stoneware, making sculptural pieces and hand built vessels. Janie sometimes smoke fires her pieces and finds the immediacy of this method exciting and stimulating. Her inspiration and interest centres around the female nude and the dramatic moorland and coastal landscapes of Devon and Cornwall. Her time spent in Turkey, with its extraordinary range of antique and contemporary ceramics, and at the museum in Dover have had an underlying influence on all her creative endeavours.
You can see more of Janie’s work in the online shop.