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BACKGROUND
We moved to Orkney in 1985. Prior to
that I had been teaching art and art history for about 20 years. I studied
at Falmouth School of Art (BA Hons Fine Art - Sculpture) and the pottery
was established in 1989. Since then I have exhibited widely including
London, Paris and Edinburgh with work in notable private collections
worldwide.
I developed a keen interest in the history
of ceramics from the Neolithic and early bronze age periods through to the
beginnings of European civilisation and Celtic and Cycladic art. This
interest fed the forms of much of my earlier work and still does.
Living in Orkney has been all important to
how things have developed. That said, my formative years were in Cornwall
where I trained and worked in the late sixties and seventies. It was a
magical time.
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(Ceramics on display at the
Pier Art Centre, Stromness, Orkney)
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RECENT WORK
I have begun to revisit those
earlier years. I, and many others, benefit from the Collection of St Ives Art
housed in the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness Orkney. I am privileged to have
known many of those artists who (unknowingly) contributed to that Collection
in those far off days and I have carried that way of looking and seeing and
feeling with me ever since.
These more recent pieces, including
the Box Frame images, all relate to Orkney: its coastal and marine
environment and its landscape, from the larger picture down to the smallest
object found on a beach...
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