I have been invited to join a small group of Northern Potters to show our ceramic work at the Didsbury Parsonage Trust on the Whit Bank holiday weekend
I will have the pleasure of sharing the exhibition with seven other ceramic artists. Clive Weake, Hazel Higham, Barbara Chadwick, Gill Mcmillan, J Melzack, Janet Halligan, Sue Harding, and me Sarah Louise Lynch ( SlliPblog)
Clive Weake makes functional and decorative ware. His decorative patterns and images are applied to his ceramic pieces using a variety of techniques making considerable use of coloured slips and also oxides. Forms are either thrown on the wheel or hand-built.
This is one of my favourites which you can find in Clive’s gallery at www.lindowceramics.com
Hazel Hingham has designed the Exhibition Flyers. Thank you Hazel. The Fruit bowl on a blue background in the flyer below is one of Hazel’s lively decorated terracotta pieces.
Janet Halligan started making her Trompe l’oeil sculptures of every day objects during the 1980’s. Inspired by Claes Oldenburg’s sculptures and Rene Magritte’s paintings of shoes with toes. These stacked retro suitcases show her skill in making clay into non clay like forms. I have admired her creativity since first seeing her work first hand at the Potfest in the Park Ceramic Show – one of my favourite Pottery Exhibitions-Sales. ( I can highly recommend this show. Each year I make a 2 1/2 hr car journey with the Family and Picnic in tow.)
I hope to take some photos of the work on show by Hazel Higham, Barbara Chadwick and Jo Melzack, and post them soon after the show…………..assuming they all agree!!!!! Perhaps you might take the opportunity to see for yourself, if you pop down to the Didsbury Parsonage Trust this coming May Bank Holiday. By the way the Old Parsonage is a Grade II listed building dating back to 1650 making it one of the oldest houses in the village and is set in it’s own tranquil gardens – so here’s the postcode for your satnav: M20 2RQ (Stenner lane – Didsbury) hope to see you there.
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