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1982
- 1991 Building up and maintaining a business as an Interior Designer
and Decorative artist with private commissions mainly in South
East England and Spain
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1991
Birth of daughter, Poppy
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1993
Started evening classes in Ceramics
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1994
Birth of son, Rupert
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1997
- 1999 Attended Eastbourn College of Arts and Technology and attained
a City and Guilds in Ceramics
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Following
on from my business as an Interior Designer and Decorative artist,
I wanted to work in 3-dimensions using clay as my medium as it is
so versatile. I used a White Raku Clay to withstand the rigours
of Raku firing - biscuit fire to 1000°C and then glaze the
pieces with a Raku glaze. My animal sculptures are constructed on
a metal armature, packed with wire and then the clay tiles are built
around the armature section by section. Once fired to 950°C
in a gas fired Raku kiln, the tiles are reduced in the sawdust and
after 20 minutes plunged into water and scrubbed to reveal the crackle
glaze and smoking from the carbon in the sawdust bin. I feel my
pieces look like they have been buried, then dug up years later
- Found object´s.
Raku
firing is addictive and is a good excuse for being a pyromaniac
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