Tree Nymphs

I've been sooo busy recently. I've just completed a couple of sculptures for ' Go Figure ' exhibition at an Altrincham art gallery. Art With a Heart Regeants rd. They are being exhibited until the beginning of March and can be purchashed and collected at the end of the exhibition.

Here is my artist statement to go with the sculptures:

I am a ceramic artist. I use various types of clays and use a wide range of methods to create one off individual pieces of art. The inspiration for these two sculptures derive from the organic nature of the materials combined with the love of the natural world. My passion for organic forms and the cycles of nature and life have inspired me to create these metamorphic sculptures. I hope to depict how the cycles of life and nature are entwined, compatible and in love with one another. I chose the female form to signify fertility and rebirth as in the natural world.


Tree nymph 1 is created using JAB porcelain with a high fire clear craze glaze. Fired to 1010c biscuit and then 1240c with a 20 min soak.

 Tee Nymph 2 was created using a grogged earhenware clay with velvet underglaze to depict the mossy colours of nature. Fired to 1060c soak 15 mins.

Metaphysical

I have been invited to exhibit at AWAH gallery. The title of the exhibition being metaphysical.

My great grandmother was a firm believer in spiritualism and as part of this modern movement assisted in the donation of £2000 for the Fox Cottage in Hydesville USA. The Fox Cottage being the birth of modern spiritualism with the Fox Sisters Rappings phenomenon.

I have inherited a number of spirit photographs and images of the The Fox Cottage and thought it would be a great idea to use these images on ceramics for the exhibition.

I researched many areas of spiritualism and contacted various spiritualist institutions (USA). I found that the emblem of spiritualism is the sunflower, so I incorporated this in my works.

I also researched the physics and mathematics regarding such beliefs and contacted physicists to assist me in my thoughts. One particular physicist suggested I look at Newtons laws of motion with the second time derivative of position as this can relate to prediction of future and time. Apt for the spiritualists beliefs !! Wow, a scientific approach to a belief actually blew my mind.

So, I collected all my research and got busy creating and I completed 6 designs to be transfered onto ceramic tiles. Each tile measures 25 x 33 cm and will be exhibited at AWAH in October. Very exciting !