Artist Statement
On starting there’s often no clear plan but there’s always something to say. It’s strange that on completion I realise the statement is there. It’s what I’ve been thinking or had a passing thought about but hadn’t articulated the words until then.
There’s so much to say, to bring out, it seems. Colour is at the heart of life, of living, for me.
Recognise the Fortnum’s pink paper? I bought some small foodstuffs for Christmas time this year. This paper was also used in their magazine advertisement - what a gorgeous pink!!! Especially next to the gold - mmmm.
Acrylics, sumi ink, wax crayon, graphite, charcoal, felt tips, are used on cartridge paper, cardboard or canvas so far.
I also use collected and saved found images, even used envelopes that have made me look twice. Vintage 50’s and 60’s extravagant home magazines (a pile from a friend and kept by for that ‘One Day’)
Sunday supplements, often populated with current high street trends for colour, texture or pattern and more, draw my eye. Kept for a few years they become useful graphic treasure.
More recently smart left-over (at the studio) architecture mags have provided structural shifts in the compositions.
Selected UK
2024 Then and Now VAS Centenary Exhibition
2020 The Ceramic House Brighton
2018 Contemporary Ceramics London WC1B 3BF
2017 Tatha Gallery Solo
2016 VAS Scottish Arts Club prize. Pittenweem Invited Artist
Permanent Collections
Museum Faenza Italy.
Aberystwyth.
British Council London.
Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Museum Vallauris France.
Publications
2016 Subversive Ceramics Claudia Clare
2011 Lark Books and 2008
2009 Ceramics and Print Paul Scott
Awards
2008 SAC Award Research New York and Chicago
2003 SAC Award Solo Touring Exhibition Scotland/England
1999 SAC Major Award
1990 Post Graduate Scholarship Edinburgh College of Art
International
Groningen Netherlands
1999 51st Faenza International Competition of Ceramic Art Italy
1997 Time for Tea Brazil Rio de Janeiro Brazil Europe
Kutani International Competition Japan.
1992 Biennale Valauris France
Teaching
1992 – 2000 Sunderland, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Dundee
Edinburgh College of Art and at various workshops.