2022
I love sea pottery, and the magical and randomised process of how ceramic objects become broken into select chucks of colour / texture / shape / pattern, perfected and smoothed by the sea – the sea as editor and curator, the human eye and brain (of the finder) being the second to perform such functions.
Around local shorelines I find lots of such ceramics – from regency tea cup handles and 18th century featheredge plate shards, to chunks of thick victorian stonewares (the colour of gingerbread or conkers), and masses of delightfully vibrant and splodgy Scottish spongeware…
But the selections created below are pure fantasy – instead of the sea being breaker and curator, I have digitally ‘torn up’ photos, layers from old digital paintings, images of work on paper and canvas, studio doodles and patterns extracted from found objects, pulling material and inspiration from everywhere to create pleasing assemblages of imagined pottery shards.
