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historic  painting & ceramics

whites, greys, pinks, vague ceramic outlines. Fixed projected photo of my pots on stands.

unstretched double hanging acrylic and silver halide 140x180cm

left side deep blacks, reds and blue acrylic paint. right side whites and pale blues. loose brushwork. bowl shape running across both sides - rear panel off white with gold edge.

unstretched double hanging canvas. acrylic paint 140x180cm

black border - rich reds and gold with black and white photo projected and fixed to the surface. cross shape, bowl and writing.

double hanging acrylic and silver halide on canvas 140x100

photo of ceramic sculpture fixed onto canvas. Left side - bowl shape scratched into surface. right side - blue human outline.

single loose hanging canvas. acrylic paint with silver halide 140x100cm

loosely painted abstract acrylic in pale blues and strong sepia. dark vessel in foreground. obscure writing in bottom right hand corner.

double hanging acrylic paint on unstretched canvas 140x180cm

high contrast abstract based on ceramic and organic forms. dark brown black, with rich reds and white. human shadow on each side forming a bowl on stand image to the centre of the painting.

double canvas with acrylic 140x180cm

black white and red with oval shapes in white. half figure on right bowl shape on left abstract acrylic double hanging
semi-abstract, dark red blacks with ceramic shapes drawn in sepia on a light ground. white strips cross horizontally and vertically.

acrylic on double hanging canvas 140x180cm

acrylic paint on double layer of canvas 140x180

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acrylic on canvas mounted on board. 140x140cm

acrylic on loose hanging canvas. 16x22cm

acrylic on double hanging canvas. 140x180cm

acrylic on double hanging canvas. 140x180cm

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Acrylic and phototransfer on 6x stretched canvas

Acrylic and phototransfer on loose hanging canvas 85x100cm

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White porcelain thrown form with attached discs -A

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White porcelain with manganese washed disc, cotton cord with aluminium bead

Thrown porcelain with manganese washed disc and aluminium bead on cotton cord

White porcelain vessel with black and white porcelain discs. Photo-litho decoration

Thrown porcelain with glazed and lustre disc. Cotton cord and aluminium bead

two terracotta pots - wheel-thrown and compressed. left - black with gold. right - burnished with black attachement

wheel-thrown earthenware vessel-forms with manganese - image widely used in paintings

jar with three attached feet. roughened surface, scratched lines with brushed-on manganese under white slip.
tall earthenware flattened with attached 'ears' manganese and gold lustre.

stoneware lidded pot with slip wash

terracotta with white engobe and stains. scatched decoration revealing red clay attached lugs.

earthenware bowl form with porcelain wash and coloured stains 

wheel-thrown and altered form with manganese wash and gold lustre decoration. this piece is a constant reference in my paintings.

random altered rim, narrow foot - large vessel. crater glaze with brown lustre.

stoneware multi fired bowl form with lustres

two black porcelain flattened shapes. both with black and red horizontal rods through upper. aluminium beads and threads attached.

wheel thrown altered porcelain with manganese and aluminium wood and thread additions 

fat-bellied pot with narrow foot and altered rim to give fractured appearance. lustres.

wheel thrown multi fired with lustres

wide-bellied pot. pre-firing treated to allow parts of glaze to be removed post-firing leaving bare patches.

stoneware 

A few examples of Chelsea Pottery, London where I had a studio.. The complicated, earthenware,  technique was a closely guarded secret. The examples here were actually made in New Zealand some time after Chelsea closed down.

large rough surface jar with scratched surface, altered rim. pinks and greys

wheel thrown stoneware sgraffito and lustres

wide-rim bowl with scratched decoration revealing white porcelain beneath.

large porcelain bowl with sgraffito decoration

Spaghetti jars plus salt and pepper 

Cheese dishes

Large planters on stands

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