Ceramics

We have a selection of ceramics both decorative and domestic.

Virginia Graham – Ceramic teapots, teacups, bowls and coasters

Michelle Freemantle - Ceramic cups and bowls

Chui – wu – Ceramics

Marcus O’Mahony - Ceramic bowls and pots

Marcus O’Mahony graduated from the Limerick College of Art and Design in the mid seventies. Marcus spent many years teaching Art and Ceramics, mostly in Dublin. In 1993, he left Dublin to esatblish Glencairn Pottery in Lismore County. Waterford, Ireland. From 1999 to the present Marcus has taught ceramics at the Limerick College of Art and Design and the National College of Art and design. Marcus is a member of Irish Contemporary Ceramics and in 2001, became a founder member of the Irish Wood, Salt, Fire Potters Group. In 2004 he was elected professional member of the Crafts Potters Association UK and he is also a member of the German Potters group Kalkspatz.

Marcus’s work is mainly wheel-thrown functional reduction stoneware which is decorated by drawing, combing, stamping and faceting into the wet clay. The work is fired in one of two kilns, a catenary-arch gas kiln and a three chambered wood-fire kiln.

Ruthanne Tudball – Ceramics – soda glaze

Ruthanne was born in California, near Majave Desert and moved to England in 1968, it was her surroundings of the desert that formed the initial inspiration for making pots. She then went on to study at Goldsmiths College in London.

Ruthanne uses design techniques in which soda and sodium carbonate are strong features . Sodium vapour glazing emphasises her work making the details considered within the finished glazes,of shiny or matt textures, shadows and highlights. Spouts and lips are a feature of her work and have a strong functional aspect. Each of Ruthanne’s pots are an original piece and as she expresses have an “honesty and integrity”.

Ruthanne was recently awarded first place in the acclaimed Texas Teapot Tournament 2007. The work is now on show in the museum in Houston.

Sue Whimster - Ceramic animal sculptures

Sue trained as a sculptor, initially at Leeds then at Exeter College of Art. Later she ran an Art Department in an East London School. Whilst teaching there she attended in-service training at Goldsmiths College, where she discovered the joys of hand-building in clay, but it wasn’t until she left teaching after the birth of her second child, that she was able to set up her workshop.

Influenced by children’s books and nursery rhymes, trips to Stoke Museum and Art Galleries collection of wonderful Staffordshire pots, sparked off the desire in Sue to make hand-built ceramic pieces. Sue’s work has a quirky individuality, with ideas from illustrations, nursery rhymes, trips to London Zoo and local parks.

Initially showing work at Covent Garden Craft Market, Sue now exhibits work in the South of England, London and latterly at the Saltbox Gallery in North Yorkshire.

Elizabeth Bailey