Matthew Blakely Ceramics

He also makes good functional pieces including teapots and pourers inventively turned and embellished.

Matthew blakely ceramics. I also make functional pots with glazes made from rocks that. Buy matthew s work here. Currently i live and work in a small village on the edge of the fens near cambridge. Fitch mcandrew online 3 years ago the gatehouse pottery.

I make my own grogs and have to crush and mill all the rocks for my glazes. I will attempt to make it much more than just a pitiful list of the relentlessly mundane minutiae of my daily existence but if you feel that i have failed try to imagine all the stuff that i haven t posted. From the rain swept granite tors of dartmoor to the black basalt and white sandstones of edinburgh my work literally represents the landscape of the places from which it is made. I have worked as a potter ever since building workshops and kilns in australia and the uk on my return in 2002.

Welcome to my blog. Matthew blakely creates unique pots with stunning surfaces made from rocks and clays that have been collected from locations around the uk. My work explores the links between ceramics and geology and place making pieces entirely from geological samples that i have collected from specific locations around the country and that illustrate the ceramic qualities inherent in these materials. All my work being made entirely from clays and rocks that i have collected crushed milled and blended myself.

Clays have to be crushed and prepared. Matthew blakely s wheel thrown porcelain and stoneware is a rich interaction of clay and glaze. His generally simple forms bowls jars and lidded pots predominate have surfaces of great movement suggestive of ice flows or the energies of water. In an interview with contemporary ceramics blakely says.

It s good to see such a broad variety of ceramics and international makers and such high. The landscape of britain provides my raw materials. 4 years ago hannah mcandrew slipware potter. Matthew blakely uk i was born in the uk but emigrated to australia in 1988 and studied ceramics at the national art school sydney.

Matthew blakely cv connaissance des arts n 736 matthew blakely in french of all the arts ceramics is the most fundamentally linked to the physical make up of the planet that we inhabit and best illustrâtes the link between science and art. I seem to work in three or four month periods which is how long it takes me to prepare clays and rocks make pots glaze pack and fire my kiln. Happy birthday pippin 3 years ago ben brierley woodfired ceramics. Where am i going in 2018.

These are the colours and textures of the bedrock of our country expressed in ceramic forms fired with wood. And the ash and dust settle.