Craig Underhill Contemporary Ceramics

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Craig underhill contemporary ceramics.

Exhibited at contemporary ceramics and new ashgate gallery. Home ceramics paintings sketchbook making me coming up contact buy 1968 born in glasgow scotland. When the clay is soft textures can be made directly onto the clay surface with my hands and fingers. I aim to create depth on the surface of the pieces and do this by applying layers of engobes slips and underglaze colours when the clay.

All my work is slab built using a lightly grogged body. Craig underhill i make slab built vessel forms which act as 3d canvasses to explore the infinite possibilities for mark making achieved with a clay surface and ceramic materials. 1985 left school and started full time course in general art and design at. Exhibited at contemporary ceramics and new ashgate gallery 2009 exhibited at gallery top and ceramic art london at the royal college of.

I want my work to evoke a feeling of landscapes and places effected by time either over short periods or eons and to appreciate landscape not only as grand open. Home ceramics paintings sketchbook making me coming up contact buy. 2009 exhibited at gallery top and ceramic art london at the royal college of art. Born in scotland underhill studied ceramics in derbyshire at harrow college and then at.

These objects explore clay as a strong ground for his resourceful interpretations of landscape objects that evoke the colour space and texture of our changing environment. Until recently my studio for 20 years had been in my garden at my home in the. Craig underhill s slab built vessels are essentially three dimensional canvasses for his richly abstract painting and marking. I was born in scotland and studied ceramics at harrow college and then fine art at portsmouth university.

With larger pieces initial marks textures and colours are added before the piece is assembled.