Nature & Solitude

Poster for Ceramics Exhibition Claudia Clare Nature and Solitude

Nature & Solitude, 2025 Nature & Solitude This is a 3-day display of my work which will show at The Old Prison, Fosse Way, Northleach, GL54 3JH from Thursday-Saturday, March 6th-8th, 2025. Reviving the Salon This is the second of my ‘salon series’ started by Frances Bates at her house in Wootton by Woodstock, in…

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Colour Studies – Part one

tall vase decorated with people and umbrellas

Colour Studies Colour Studies – Part 1 This post is an introduction to the formal concerns of painting with slips on pots. By ‘painting,’ I mean the sort I learnt at art school in the early 1980s which evolved mainly from post Renaissance, Western European art. This starts the discussion of how that is done…

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The Garden Vases

woman with two decorated vases

The Garden Vases, 2024 The Garden series, 2024 Will show at Collect24 with Ruup & Form Somerset House, Feb 28/9 pvs, Mar 1-3 public. Tickets via Collect24 Garden series has grown out of my life long love of gardens which I probably got from my mother and grandmother. It is that sense of an ‘in…

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Feminist Jugs

Jugs Slab-built Nautical Sgraffito Monochrome Feminist

Feminist Jugs – Sink the Sex Trade! Feminist Jugs I love this picture of the my two new sgraffito ware jugs, photographed together, leading the fleet. Paired up like this seems to inject energy – they could almost be sailing. I’m particularly delighted with the way the handles look. They’re in the shop now. Go…

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