‘Over the Moon’ Exhibition
2021
Our ‘Over the Moon’ 2021 Exhibition features artists from across the United Kingdom, delivering Prints, Pottery and Jewellery
Contact us directly if you would like to find out more about our artists featured below or purchase one of their pieces.
CELIA
HART
Celia works in a studio in a small village in the south-west corner of Suffolk, near the familiar landscape of South Cambridgeshire where she grew up.
Her prints are hand-burnished using traditional techniques, inspired by Japanese and Chinese printmakers and the English tradition of the illustrative print. Celia makes a limited number of each print (10 to 50) and because of subtle variations in the process each print is unique.
Celia studied design and illustration at Brighton College of Art and Design and started her career in publishing as a designer and art buyer for a major UK publisher. In June 2015 she redesigned the Telegraph Newspaper crest for the 160th anniversary new-look of the UK national daily newspaper. From April 2015 to December 2017 Celia regularly contributed to Gardens Illustrated Magazine, illustrating Frank Ronan's monthly column with a linocut. In 2018 she illustrated the best-selling book The Almanac - a seasonal guide to 2019 by Lia Leendertz.
MICK
MORGAN
Mick studied ceramics at Cardiff College of Art from 1971-1974.
He set up my first studio in Wenvoe during his last year at college. In 1975 Mick established his current studio in Talog, Carmarthen and has lived and worked there happily ever since. Over the years he has built several wood fired kilns ranging from 30 cu.ft. to 200 cu.ft. Mick built his present kiln a 150 cu.ft. gas fired beast with soda ports in 1990. He makes all his own clays and glazes.
Most of Mick’s work is started on the wheel and from there can go through many changes. The pots can be cut, distorted, rebuilt or even left as simple thrown forms. He apply slips and burnish the pieces prior to raku firing.
CATH
HILL
After almost 8 years working in various admin posts for her local Council, Cath realised that she needed a change of direction.
Influenced by her late father, art has always played a part in her life. She would spend hours drawing and painting as a child and be fascinated by her father's numerous books on the subject. Cath left her last admin post in 1999 to go back into full time education, first to do an Art Foundation Diploma at Tameside College and then on to a BA (Hons) Degree in 3 Dimensional Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. She graduated in 2003.
Celia works from her studio in a grade II listed former cotton mill, built in the 1830s, 4 miles from her home.
PATRICIA
KELLY
Patricia became ‘hooked’ on pottery when she was first introduced to clay at an evening class. At the same time, as luck would have it, redundancy from her office lifestyle gave Patricia the chance for a career change - fulfilling her dream of becoming a potter. This was enhanced by the wonderful opportunity of spending time at the Moorcroft Pottery tube-lining and painting a vase to her own design.
When creating her style of small character pieces Patricia is influenced by the innocence and naivety of many of the Staffordshire figurines. A caption adds to the fun element but dig deeper and there maybe another layer of meaning.
Patricia feels she has succeeded when a piece raises a smile and so brightens up a persons day.
The larger characters are social stereotypes familiar to all of us.
Each piece is hand built using a combination of slab building modelling and decorated using a variety of glazes and fired in an electric kiln several times.
JAN
FRYER
Jan has loved making things all her life. She started making jewellery when her daughters were small because she couldn't afford to buy the jewellery that she liked. Jan wants to be thought of creative and not just a jeweller.
Jan loves making china because it has a function, and to her eye at least, it's nice to look at. She see’s the jewellery as nice to wear and can even give happiness to the wearer.
Ann
Donnelly
Ann Donnelly's kiln-fused glass designs are influenced by the wildlife in her garden. She makes free-standing glass bird sculptures which she mounts on locally sourced fruitwood branches or on blocks of English oak.
In contrast, she also produces delicate, hand-finished gravity-drop vessels and creates multiple images 'painted' in fine glass powder, that are fused together to form a kiln-cast picture block.
