Vanessa Burley
Artwork for Vanessa Burley
Blue Shipwreck pot
Turquoise Shipwreck bowl and lanturn
Details
How would you describe the work you do and why?
My ‘Shipwreck’ pots and vessels are made from stoneware clay. Thrown on the wheel, then textures are added before reshaping each pot using heat and additional clay. Unintentional holes, slits and uneven edges give each pot its individuality. The glaze layers then create crystalline surfaces, crawling effects, lava-like eruptions. Evoking the sense of a once-beautiful pot lifted from the seabed after many years.
Describe what you call yourself/your practice?:
I am a ceramicist who loves making sculptural and functional forms.
Your practice & activities include e.g workshops, teaching:
I teach small one day pottery workshops.
Check out my website
https://artinthetower.com/
CV & Education, relevant & leading to your artistic practice:
BA (hon) 3D Design-Manchester
Your gallery outlets/stockists:
Park Gallery, Cheltenham
Urchins Gallery, Ross-On-Wye
Oxenhall Gallery, Hereford and Leominster