Artwork for Kathy Priddis
Cheese baker/butter dish
Milk jug
Arthur's Stone
Patricio Church
Trakehner Horses, How Caple
Art deco hare dish
Skirrid
Cooler and salt jar
Details
Some days I paint, other days I potter… I make wheel-thrown stoneware pottery, designed for everyday use, and glazed with local clays. These pure clay slips interact with my celadon glazes to create spontaneous opalescent Chun effects. Further decoration is with small ammonite sprigs, wax or leaf resist, and sgraffito.
I paint figuratively, either from life or good quality photographs, on canvas or heavy paper, using acrylics, watercolour, pastels, or oils. The colours of my landscape palette are echoed in my pottery glazes, the greens, blues, earth-reds and browns of the hills, rivers, and old buildings of our infinitely inspiring local countryside.
Inspiration - hard graft & struggle - delight and satisfaction! I was taught by David Leach, eldest son of Bernard Leach (known as the ‘father’ of English studio pottery). From him I learned his intuitive understanding of glaze-making and how to design my own glazes using local clays and other organic material rather than chemicals – it’s more of a struggle than buying glazes ready-made, but it’s much more satisfying.
Painter / potter
I’m always learning so every time I go into my studio I get totally absorbed - it becomes an intensely contemplative activity.
I offer 1:1 tuition on the potter's wheel and I also teach a weekly art class, plus personal tuition in drawing and painting.
I also offer a personal POTTERY THROW-DOWN!
2-hour personal tuition on the potter's wheel. £60. Best pot free, then £7.50 per pot.
Or a hand-building workshop: adult or accompanied child: £60 per person
Family group: £50 per person. Maximum group size: 5
Fees inclusive of firing & glazing
Collection by arrangement.
B.Ed - ceramics with David Leach and Harry Horlock-Stringer
Open Studios: h.Art and farOpen (Forest and Rivers)
2 Annual Christmas Charity events
