Some days I paint, other days I potter…
I make wheel-thrown stoneware pottery, designed for everyday use, and glazed with local clays. These pure clay slips interact with my celadon glazes to create spontaneous opalescent Chun effects. Further decoration is with small ammonite sprigs, wax or leaf resist, and sgraffito.
I paint figuratively, either from life or good quality photographs, on canvas or heavy paper, using acrylics, watercolour, pastels, or oils.
The colours of my landscape palette are echoed in my pottery glazes, the greens, blues, earth-reds and browns of the hills, rivers, and old buildings of our infinitely inspiring local countryside.
Contact details below
Forest and Rivers (FarOpen) Regional Art Trail
Open Studio here at Round Oak
Saturday 4th – Sunday 12th July 10am – 5pm daily
Pottery and paintings
FarOpen Members Annual Exhibition
at the Dean Heritage Centre, Soudley, Glos.
Saturday 27th June – Sunday 11th July, 9am – 5pm
Multiple arts and crafts, Forest venue, tea rooms.
Herefordshire Art Week (h.Art) Regional Art Trail
Open Studio here at Round Oak
Saturday 5th – Sunday 13th September, 10am – 5pm daily
Pottery and paintings.
Herefordshire Art Week (h.Art) Regional Art Trail
Open Studio here at Round Oak
Saturday 5th – Sunday 13th September, 10am – 5pm daily
Pottery and paintings.
h.art Christmas Charity Event (charity to be decided) here at Round Oak
Friday 27th – Sunday 29th November 10am – 4pm
and
Friday 4th – Sunday 6th December 10am – 4pm
Sales and Christmas gifts
Each year, for the past 14 years, and with the invaluable support of my visitors, I have donated 100% of my profits to charities of my choice, raising over £1,000 annually. This year I will be donating to St Bridget’s Church PCC Fabric Fund, Bridstow.
POTTERY
I have always sourced local clays, which come mostly from the Forest of Dean and Herefordshire. From them I make slip-glazes which interact with my organic celadon glazes to create Chun effects in blues, greens,
purples and browns.
My pots are designed for everyday use, their shapes a collaboration of natural forms with their ultimate purpose or function. Further decoration is with small ammonite sprigs, wax or leaf resist, and sgraffito.
PORTRAIT PAINTING
Liz Cross
As a portrait painter, I generally work to commission, but painting Liz was different. She was celebrating her 100th birthday and didn’t want any presents.
So I offered her a watercolour portrait…
She sat for nearly three hours, hardly moving, while I did most of the work, finishing it at home. It’s just under life size.
I usually work either from life or good quality photographs, using acrylics, watercolour, pastels or oils, aiming to find character and story as well as likeness.
LANDSCAPES AND BUILDINGS
As a landscape painter I am inspired by our local countryside with its hills and mountains, rivers and streams, old buildings such as disused or converted mills or country churches, and the clear light and wide skies.
I work on canvas or heavy paper using acrylics, oils, watercolours, pastels and soluble pen, relying on sketches and photographs taken in all weathers and finishing the work in my studio.
This watercolour of Ross Market Hall on market day was painted from numerous sketches of people and from photos of the building.