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View Image Gallery Lindy Barletta(Full member)
Tel: +44(0)7887483275 Email: Web: www.sheenpottery.co.uk/
Artist's Statement
I make what I enjoy making, this is a privilege I am aware of and try to show my appreciation by making carefully, with attention to form, movement, depth of colour and following traditional and aesthetic beliefs as used by English Studio Potters and the great Japanese potters . I am on a journey with clay, the moment I touched it and felt it slipping through my hands it spoke to me saying make something out of me. It responded to my every touch, sensitively or dramatically changing shape. I think I can make any shape but strive to make a good and strong shape. I know immediately when it is good and when it is not, when it is to be recycled or hopefully admired and fired. I want perfection to start with but then I let the nature of the clay show itself by leaving throwing rings, spontaneous curves and finger marks. I want to make an impact on the viewer using shape, size and colour. I love the idea that all the materials and glazes are from the earth. They are refined of course, but end up being a thing of beauty or a much admired and used piece. I decorate using layers of oxides, slip with sgraffito and multiple layers of stoneware glazes. Glazes are strong colours and deep in richness, interest and beauty. My journey continues all the time, the ideas keep on coming. I have been fortunate in my ceramic education and have studied and attended intensive workshops under a good few potters including George Wilson, David and Margaret Frith and Derek Emms and recently Gareth Mason and Phil Rogers. I am on a long path with far to travel and so much more to discover. My work evolves all the time, I hope this makes it seem fresh, surprising and different.
Current Work and Availability
Current Work Thrown and turned stoneware, functional, decorative and one-off pieces, very large bowls. Work currently available at: Sheen Pottery, Unit 5, 26-28 Priest's Bridge, London SW14 8BG. Contemporary British Crafts. Craft in Focus. Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham. POP UP ART SHOP, East Sheen, London SW14. And New for 2011, Riverside Gallery, Barnes High Street (River end)
Career and Education Background
Hereford College of Art (Textile Design). Technical InformationLindy uses a white fleck stoneware from Valentine's Clays. She makes her own slip colours and glazes, uses metal oxides for added decoration and fires in an electric kiln to cone 9. Exhibitions
July 2010 - 'Art in Action', Waterperry, Oxon. July 2010 - Barnes Fair. June 2010 - ArtHouse Open Studio. April 2010 - 'Craft in Focus' at RHS Wisley. Dec 2009 - British Contemporary Crafts, Chiswick Town Hall. June 2009 - ArtHouse Open Studio. July 2009 - 'Art in Action', Waterperry, Oxon. April 2009 - London Potters Selected Exhibition, Holland Park.
Awards
Lindy won an Award for the ‘Best Functional Piece’ for a Large Thrown Bowl (55cm diam), in white glaze with iron and cobalt oxide decoration. London Potters Annual Exhibition at the Morley Gallery December 2010. She also won the Public Vote for the 'favourite Potter' at the same exhibition.
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Contact DetailsStudio Address: Sheen Pottery, Unit 5, 26-28 Priest's Bridge, London, England, SW14 8TA.View in Google Maps Telephone: +44(0)7887483275 Fax: +44(0)2088764392 Email: Web-site: www.sheenpottery.co.uk/ Availability: Visitors welcome on weekdays. Please telephone first to avoid disappointment. Joined on: 2010-10-28 Last Updated: 2011-02-14 Work styles:
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