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Richard started his artist career at Bradford college of Art, where he studied as an Interior Designer prior to starting work as such for Samuel Smiths Brewery in Tadcaster. After a spell of destroying the character of a multitude of pubs and clubs in the north of England he returned to university at Bretton Hall to retrain as a teacher. He then went into teaching in secondary schools - first Yorkshire then Northamptonshire. His first teaching job he was put in charge of a ceramics department and so started at evening class to keep one step ahead of the children. This started a lifetime love affair with the material. In 2003 he left full time teaching and returned to university to complete a degree in glass and ceramics at Buckinghamshire University. Since then, he has worked full time in ceramics.
Carol trained as a nurse after an education in both England, USA and Germany. Her interest in clay started at an evening Access to Art and Design course attended while the children were young, and developed into love of making- both on the wheel and hand building.
Carol and Richard began a working partnership around 2010. The resulting ceramic art is a fusion of both their skills, contributing to each other’s work and creating new work together. Their ceramics are as varied as the British climate –work being both sculptural and functional, life size to miniature, Raku to high fired porcelain. Being not only pyromaniacs, but also collectors from woods, beaches and salvage yards, often the work incorporates found objects in the sculpture- from ash from Mount St Helens in a glaze to stones washed on the beach as plinths- each object telling its own story.
Richard started his artist career at Bradford college of Art, where he studied as an Interior Designer prior to starting work as such for Samuel Smiths Brewery in Tadcaster. After a spell of destroying the character of a multitude of pubs and clubs in the north of England he returned to university at Bretton Hall to retrain as a teacher. He then went into teaching in secondary schools - first Yorkshire then Northamptonshire. His first teaching job he was put in charge of a ceramics department and so started at evening class to keep one step ahead of the children. This started a lifetime love affair with the material. In 2003 he left full time teaching and returned to university to complete a degree in glass and ceramics at Buckinghamshire University. Since then, he has worked full time in ceramics.
Carol trained as a nurse after an education in both England, USA and Germany. Her interest in clay started at an evening Access to Art and Design course attended while the children were young, and developed into love of making- both on the wheel and hand building.
Carol and Richard began a working partnership around 2010. The resulting ceramic art is a fusion of both their skills, contributing to each other’s work and creating new work together. Their ceramics are as varied as the British climate –work being both sculptural and functional, life size to miniature, Raku to high fired porcelain. Being not only pyromaniacs, but also collectors from woods, beaches and salvage yards, often the work incorporates found objects in the sculpture- from ash from Mount St Helens in a glaze to stones washed on the beach as plinths- each object telling its own story.
'Ready to Party' and 'Shaken not Stirred'
90 x 210mm, Raku Ceramic, £155 each
SOLD
Baby Penguins
60 x 100mm, Raku Ceramic, £75 each
Lying Hares
250 x 160 and 250 x 110mm, Raku Ceramic, £155 each
SOLD
Swiffs on Pidgeon Lamp
100 x 340mm, Raku Ceramic on Pidgeon Lamp, £90
SOLD
Baa Humbug
170 x 270mm, Raku Ceramic, £340
SOLD
Lamb with Poppies
190 x 190mm, Raku Ceramic, £220
SOLD
Zebra Head
180 x 260mm, Raku Ceramic, £310
SOLD
Egg and Bacon
180 x 170mm, Raku Ceramic, £210
SOLD
God's Gift
240 x 290mm, Stoneware, £535
SOLD
Flying
210 x 200 x 100mm, Stoneware, £415
SOLD
I'm the King of the Castle
Earthenware with Sips and Glazes
SOLD
I'm Not Cold
60 x 100mm, Raku Ceramic, £80
SOLD