58 Chris Russell

Ceramics, Sculpture

Artform: Ceramics & Pottery, Photography, Sculpture

Over the years I’ve worked with silver, wood and clay. Each is very different but clay is that extra bit different. There is something about working a material directly with your hands, no tools, no machines, that sets it apart from what I have done before.

And as to my ideas – it’s a mix of influences over many years. The form of the pots has been strongly influenced by my time as a silversmith but also Japanese tea bowls. I first looked closely at textures photographing the ancient trees in Greenwich Park over 40 years ago, ideas reinforced with my recent forays into Green Woodworking. There is also a lot that I have taken from times on beaches, clambering over rocks, especially those with white quartz veins, so I suppose it comes down to a fascination with the, textures, colours and forms in the natural world.
While I’ve run workshops building single burn Paper-Clay kilns, which can result in heavily carbonised and smoke impregnated finishes – another influence, working with clay with any direction has only happened very recently. My first firings were earlier this year, and I’ve focused on using coloured and highly grogged stoneware. Glazes are a combination of pre-mixed powdered glaze with different ground clays in various proportions.

Venue

Worcester Arts Collective
8 College Yard
Worcester
WR1 2LA

Directions: Next to the front entrance of Worcester Cathedral. 10 mins walk from Foregate Street Station or Crowngate bus station. No vehicle access to College Yard but numerous pay and display car parks in the vicinity.

What 3 words location: extra.avoid.zone

Tel: 07942 365685
Instagram: chrisrussell696
Facebook: At The End of the Garden

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