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View Image Gallery Richard Heeley(Full member)
Tel: 0794 6462901 Email: Web: www.richardheeley.com
Artists ProfileThe starting point for my work is developed on the North Wales coast where I spend a quarter of my working year recording in a variety of media the textures, shapes, colour and structure of the coastal landscape. This rich source of inspiration has a simple quiet affinity with the clay and processes that I use. My work varies between stoneware oxidation and reduction fire depending on the desired surface finish, colour of the clay body and glaze quality. I draw on Eastern ceramic traditions to influence designs and techniques: stoneware glazes and forms from Song China, construction and firing techniques from Japan and Korean brushwork. I practice free flowing brushwork. I spend long hours repeating my designs to gain a fluid feel and simplicity that matches the thrown clay and fits as part of the pot, working in harmony with the form. My work is Influenced by a deep appreciation of Korean 16th century ware from the Chosôn dynasty. The brushed decoration is a combination of slips made from local clay, and found and hand-ground scrap flake iron, which produces a rich variation in colour and brush stroke quality and texture I have been handling clay for over twenty years. I formally trained at Manchester Metropolitan University in Ceramics and Design achieving my BA Hons by specializing in reduction fire and oriental ceramics. Since graduating in 1996 I have worked as a ceramic technician, taught evening classes and Foundation and exhibited independently. The intimate contact with ceramics when eating and drinking is also very important to my work. Being married to a professional chef who has a passion for ceramics helps me to design the pots; form and finish appropriate to recipes and food that inspires. These influences combined with my working practice help forge my ideas and experiments with which I start to create a range of work. Decisions are then made about which glaze and surface quality best suits the 2D designs. The aim is to produce work with a quiet voice an eastern subtle palette with forms and compositions that capture a sense of landscape and harmony - hopefully a joy to use and live with.
Current Work - Availability
• Surrey Guild Gallery - Milford. • Farnham Maltings – Farnham. • Mine Gallery - Carshalton.
Teaching Demonstrations, Lectures and Memberships• Head of 3D Department – Sutton College of Learning for Adults. Exhibitions:• 2012: Hand Made in Britain – Chelsea craft fair. • 2012: Earth & Fire – Rufford country park. • 2012: Spirit of Spring - Farnham Maltings. • 2011: Surrey Guild Christmas Fair – Guilford. • 2011: Showcase with Oakwood Ceramics at the Thoresby Gallery. • 2011: Dulwich ceramic & Glass fair. • 2008 - 2010: ICR Christmas Fair. • 1998 - 2010: London Potters Morley show.
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Contact DetailsStudio Address: .Telephone: 0794 6462901 Email: Web-site: www.richardheeley.com Joined on: 2012-08-02 Last Updated: 2013-02-12 Events featuring this potter
Rufford Craft Centre : Earth and Fire 2013 at Rufford
Bevere Gallery : Featured potters in July Work styles:
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