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View Image Gallery Steve Booton(Full member)
Tel: +44 (0)1142648340 Email: Web: www.stevebootonceramics.co.uk
Artist statement
My current work is a balance of form, shape and texture, using the mixed media of clay, wood and metal. My inspiration comes from traditional Japanese ceramics producing contemporary vessels with echoes of the past. I have recently been working with wood firing using simple shino glazes, firing the pots on their sides and sprinkling rust to melt and combine with the glazes.
Current work and Availability
My work is a combination of many media starting with ceramic pieces to which I add turned wood and metal wire. I use stoneware and raku to give me my initial forms, which I then add the wooden handles and stoppers, attached with wooden pegs and wire. I have always been drawn to japanese chawan and yunomi teabowls. The simplicity of form combined with tenmoku glazes are my present focus and theme of work. Developing form and surface texture through applied underglaze slips and additions of bamboo and wire.
Background and Education
- Studied at Wolverhampton poly 1978-81 BA hons Ceramics BUSINESS: Observations from a potter on the edge – how YouTube can help your business. Take a look at this youtube video. History
I completed my ceramics degree at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1981, under the excellent tutelage of David Pegg and Jeff and Pam Salter and Alan Swale. After obtaining my PGCE in 1982, I opted for a teaching career in Sheffield. Partly due to my then growing family and partly my desire to pass on the delights of clay and design. My teaching career lasted 14 years until an accident at work resulted in a period of incapacitation and ultimately, a career change and a complete cessation of anything clay related. During the intervening years all but one of my four children have left for various parts of the globe and I have endured a variety jobs all of which have failed to fill the creative vacuum caused by the need to support my family in the style to which they would like to become accustomed!!!. During a visit to St.Ives in March 2006 for my daughters wedding, I was passing time by showing my son a Hamada pot in a local gallery and explaining to him the history of St.Ives and its influences on art, ceramics in general, and me in particular. He commented on the fact that surely all the knowledge and training I had received was going to waste and why didn’t I “practice what I preached”. That specific conversation was the catalyst that led to my decision to return to ceramics after a prolonged absence.
Exhibitions
NPA selected exhibition Northern Hot Pot Bolton Museum 15th Dec 2006 – 10 Feb 2007 |
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Contact DetailsStudio Address: 141 Constable Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, S14 1BG.View in Google Maps Telephone: +44 (0)1142648340 Mobile: 07706796315 Email: Web-site: www.stevebootonceramics.co.uk Availability: To avoid disappointment please phone before visiting. Joined on: 2011-08-19 Last Updated: 2011-09-24 Events featuring this potter
Potfest in the Pens - Penrith : Potfest in the Pens Work styles:
Stoneware |
