Impressions; Pennine Winter

The Pennines in winter can be stunning; the stark white snow delineated by the intricate patterns of the black walls with the bright blue of the sky and the deep blues in the shadows of the frosty walls.

Pennine Winter
This is a large, double sided standing piece made form porcelain paperclay that aims to convey some of the tones and textures of a Pennine Winter, particularly the field patternes outlined by the dry stone walls.

A second version of this theme, in this case using various different types of paperclay, screen prints, layered slips and glazes that aim to convey some of the impressions of winter in the Pennines.

Impressions: A Winter Walk
Another development on from the winter theme with a combination of textured layered slips, prints and glazes.

Cullingworth; A Self Portrait

One of the aspects that I wanted to explore was a representation of the village. The dilemma was how?
Then it struck me; to use the way that it represents itself - it's signage.

This is a large wall plaque made from stoneware paperclay that revisits the theme of the village of Cullingworth. Using the images and signs that the village itself presents to represent it, it also aims to echo the recurring shapes to be found; the arches of the mill archways, the viaduct and the doors and windows of the pubs, the shapes and angles of the roof’s and the tones and textures of the local stone.

A second version of the village theme with a more overlapped and layered feel.

Exploring Goitstock

Goitstock Woods is a local beauty spot with twisting paths amongst the trees of a steep, narrow valley following the path of Goitstock Beck which falls in a series of rills and waterfalls.

Goitstock 2.
This piece was a further development of the Goitstock woods theme, developing the feeling of enclosure by the trees which arch over the fast flowing stream and the prominent, twining root systems.

Goitstock 3.
Continuing to develop this theme, in this case I wanted to convey the feeling of the falling, twisting, bubbling beck surrounded by the trunks of the many trees. It is made from stoneware and porcelain paperclays.

Goitstock 4.
A third revisit of the Goitstock theme, in this case concentrating on the actual waterfall cascade using porcelain paperclay and volcanic glazes, mounted on a piece of Green Oak