Artist's Statement

Current Work and Availability

My work continues to be hand built, often beginning with a thrown base.  The forms are altered by pressing, cutting and beating. These techniques leave significant marks which are then supplemented by impressing various textured surfaces into the leather-hard clay. Glazes and oxides are then used more sparingly to enhance and reveal these marks while more smoked and blackened areas of the form are left exposed. 

Work available at:
The Gallery Upstairs, Henley-in-Arden, Warks.
Atticus Gallery, Bath.
View Gallery, Thames Ditton, Surrey.
The Old Fire Engine House, Ely, Cambs.
International Art Consultants Ltd, London.

Technical Information

The clay used is a mixture of Earthstone handbuilding body and white stoneware. The glazes have evolved over many years and are based on Borax and alkaline frits, combined with china clay, ball clay and various colouring oxides, depending on the surface effects required. The work is bisque fired to C1020⁰ and then Raku fired with the associated reduction process. The larger forms begin with a thrown base, which is then coiled onto. Smaller forms are thrown and altered and sometimes press moulded.

Career and Education Background

Educated at Cambridge School of Art, West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham and Middlesex Polytechnic.
Since leaving college Stephen has combined making and teaching at various schools and colleges. 

Exhibitions

Work has been widely exhibited, most recently at:
2001 - The Hart Gallery, London (solo)
           ‘Abstract Works’, Artmonsky Arts, London (group)
           The Hart Gallery at Phillips Auctioneers, London (group)
           Conservatory Gallery, Cambridge (3 person)
           ‘Ouverture’, Galerie Place Neuve, France (group)
           ‘Art é Nîm’, Contemporary Art Fair, Nîmes, France (group)
2002 - ‘Pots’, Babylon Gallery, Ely (3 person)
2003 - ‘Form and Surface, Pelican Gallery, Perse School, Cambridge (2 person)
           ‘Untamed’, Conservatory Gallery, Cambridge (3 person)
2006 - ‘Scratch the Surface’, Atticus Arts, Bath (group)
           View Gallery, Thames Ditton (2 person)    
2007 - Bettles Gallery, Ringwood (2 person)
           ‘Autumn Exhibition’, Angela Mellor Gallery, Ely (group)
2009 - The Old Fire Engine House, Ely (2 person)
2010 - Haddenham Galleries, Cambs., Anglian Potters selected members (group)
           ‘Winter Exhibition’, The Gallery Upstairs, Henley-in-Arden (group)