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Here are listed many of the past and present contributors to the Woodbury Studio Gallery. Those artists currently or recently exhibiting here are listed first.
Sally MacDonell constructs her figures from thin slabs of stoneware clay. The bisqued forms are washed with copper oxide, then brushed with a white engobe. After firing the figures are wrapped with tape, then smoked for 10 to 15 minutes. When cleaned, waxed and buffed, pewter details are added. ‘I am addicted to the challenge of the firing process and the random effects of the smoking that are beyond my absolute control. Sally has recently begun to experiment with stoneware glazes and colour. ‘I am a great people watcher, and this fascination is intrinsic to my work. With the subtleties of hand-modelling gesture and pose, I seek to reveal personalities and moods. The dynamic process of making each figure captures a transient moment into permanence.’ Sally has been recently commissioned by P&O Cruises to make three sculptures for the new ship Arcadia. Lectures and workshops include Midland Potters, Northern Potters and Southern Potters Association and the Scottish Potter’s Kindrogen Camp. 1998 nominated for an Arts Foundation Fellowship 1996 Crafts Council Setting Up Grant Recipient |
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Above all, I admire the craftman’s freedom, the deep sense of realisation, the life spent in continuous research and production of work that involves all human faculties. As Bernard Leach wrote ‘Pots, like all other forms of art, are human expressions: pleasure, pain or indifference before them depends upon their natures, and their natures are invariably projections of the minds of their creators’. |
Raku - New Directions |
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My first experience of pottery was in 1968, working for Christine Reichel, a German sculptress, in the South West of Ireland. I then worked in various pottery workshops before joining the Harrow Studio Pottery course in 1970. After that I worked in Africa, France and the USA. On my return from working in East Africa in 1985, I established my own studio workshop in the Cotswolds.
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The countryside surrounding Anna’s Welsh home is steeped in history. Neolithic and Roman artefacts can be found in abundance and the Celtic history of this isolated corner of the British Isles feels somehow close at hand. Such an ancient place of myth and legend provides rich and varied source material for her powerful ceramic sculptures. Anna has had many solo and group exhibitions and her work is is eagerly collected throughout the UK. |
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Sarah is attracted by dynamic forms, economy of line and the powerful storytelling qualities and spiritual meaning that are expressed so powerfully in cultures as diverse as Islamic art and Indian shadow puppets. These inform and imbue her ceramic imagery with spirituality and allegorical undertones. The results are pieces of sensitivity and quiet presence. |
Raku - New Directions |
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