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Pauline Rignall and Claire Allam
Jun
7
to Jul 5
Painting, ceramics

Pauline Rignall and Claire Allam

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Pauline Rignall & Claire Allam

8 June - 6 July

Opening 7:30pm Friday 7 June

"I am an intuitive and expressive artist. I like to interweave both abstract and figurative elements in my paintings. Imagination, the earth, the sky, the elements all feed into the inspiration that informs my work.

I have always been intrigued by dreams and myth which create the images that flow in and out of my paintings. I work quickly, but am constantly obliterating and reforming in the process of finding the poetics of the expression." Pauline Rignall

“I have made pots, drawn and painted for most of my life. An early memory is digging clay from a Cornish cliff with my father. I feel a keen sense of connection with the landscape and natural world and my work celebrates the movement and rhythms I find there.

Outdoor sketches, photographs and observation begin the process in which my paintings often inform my ceramic work. My choice of colours is British landscape informed – sea greens and greys, blue, rust, ochre and black, enlivened with copper reds.” Claire Allam

We are excited to welcome the joint exhibition of Pauline Rignall and Claire Allam.

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Beans and Menhirs - Hanne Westergaard
Apr
28
to May 27
ceramics

Beans and Menhirs - Hanne Westergaard

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A short video with narration by gallery owner, curator and director Karen Sherwood.

Beans and Menhirs

Hanne Westergaard

28th April - 26th May

HANNE WESTERGAARD

“Clay has been my medium for over 40 years. I have been potting since I first discovered ceramics, and have gone through different viewpoints about my work.

I am influenced by Modernism. While at art school in Copenhagen I was taught that there are strict rules about what should and should not be made. I have mellowed over the years and can now allow myself to experiment with works I previously would not have considered making. But I feel a responsibility to be careful about what I make. The world is full of objects, and I do not want to add to that multiplicity unless I feel I have something worthwhile to say in doing so. I do not make as many pots as I used to, but perhaps I put more thinking into them.

A vital part of my life is my ceramics, and I get much of my inspiration from nature: walking on the moors and by the sea, looking at the ever-changing light and the rhythms in the patterns of nature.

I enjoy the making process and the firing; the excitement after a firing and the wait before the kiln opening, where it is revealed which ideas have worked and which have not. There are many disappointments, but in-between I may get something out that ‘shines’, and that is what makes me want to carry on being a maker.”
Hanne Westergaard

Hanne Westergaard graduated in Ceramics from Kunsthandvaerker Skolen, Copenhagen in 1964 and further studied at North Staffordshire Polytechnic in 1987. Hanne has taught and lectured and continued her practice for over 40 years. She has work in public collections in Denmark and the UK and in private collections internationally. Hanne lives and works in Sheffield.

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Apr
26
to Jun 1
ceramics

Vessel - Northern Potters Association

Artists taking part include:

Adrian Bates, Alison Wren, Andrew Caines, Bev Seth, Beverley Sommerville, Brian Holland, Carl Gray, Catriona Archibald, Claire Allam, David Helm, Debbie Michaels, Deiniol Williams, Emmeline Butler, Eric Moss, Frances Lee, Gabi Komar-Dixon, Helen Graham, Isabel Denyer, Janet Halligan, Jill Ford, Kathryn Watson, Kit (Kathryn) Hemsley, Krishna Alageswaran, Nicola Briggs, Olinda Everett, Penny Withers, Peter Swailes, Sarah Villeneau, Sheila Spencer, Simone Abram

Vessel

Northern Potters Association

27 April – 1 June

FREE artists’ talks

Saturday 25 May: 2-3:30pm

For details and or to book a place visit:

http://www.cupolagallery.com/new-blog/2019/5/21/northern-potters-association-artist-talks

Vessel - according to the dictionary

Noun

1. a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.

2. an airship.

3. a hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.

4. Anatomy, Zoology. a tube or duct, as an artery or vein, containing or conveying blood or some other body fluid.

5. Botany. a duct formed in the xylem, composed of connected cells that have lost their intervening partitions, that conducts water and mineral nutrients.

Compare tracheid.

6. a person regarded as a holder or receiver of something, especially something nonmaterial:

a vessel of grace; a vessel of wrath.

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