Angela Townson – Worcestershire Open Studios

29 Angela Townson

Potter

Artform: Ceramics & Pottery

This is my first time taking part in Worcestershire Open Studios, and I am very much looking forward to being involved with this creative community and exhibiting alongside my good friend and artist, Catherine Adams.
My love of pottery started over 30 years ago, when I attended evening classes at Malvern Hills College. Fast forward many years (and many years of not being creative at all) I am now a member of the pottery studio at Clay@TheFold. I am learning and developing my pottery skills, embracing the challenges as well as the successes. I am excited to be creating my own style of work, working with different types of clay and colours of glaze.
I make functional stoneware, hand throwing this on the potters wheel. I also hand build, when I work intuitively with the clay. Both techniques are very different, but I really love this difference and the scope it gives me to express my creativity. I use stoneware clay for throwing, and coarse crank clay for handbuilding. I love the texture coarse crank clay gives my work, and how this texture also creates variations in the glaze.
Along the way of my renewed pottery adventure, I have tried different colours of glaze, but my favourite glaze is a matt white. I mainly use the same glaze on all my work, but the different clay bodies and texture give different results and shades of white. Exciting! I use a colour to create a simple decoration, applying it with my finger tip. The use of the same colour glaze brings together, as a collection, the unique-ness of the hand built and the more conventionality of the hand thrown.
I also use a wood ash glaze on my hand built work, its earthy natural tones suiting the texture of coarse crank clay, and no two pieces are ever the same.
I will be exhibiting my pottery alongside the beautiful and colourful paintings of artist, Catherine Adams. Catherine’s use of bright vibrant colours and my use of paler calm colours will both compliment and contrast each other, and together they will provide an eclectic and attractive exhibition.

Venue

24 Croft Bank
West Malvern
WR14 4DU Malvern
United Kingdom
Directions: Take the B4232 from Great Malvern climbing to West Malvern. Just before St James Church, turn right down Croft Bank. Number 24 is on the right opposite Montpelier Road. Free parking on Croft Bank.

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Tel: 07980 159798
Instagram: angelatownsonat