Spring Crafts was an annual an exhibition of ceramic work, jewellery, textiles and photography by local artists and craft designers daily from Thursday 28th to Wednesday 4th May 2011 daily from 10am to 5-30pm, The Old Fire Station Gallery, Market Place
Ceramics by Caroline Moody-Jerome
My work is focused on change Clay: a material created by natural geological forces, a mixture of fine minerals and water; collected and formed into objects; dried and subjected to a great heat; covered in a coating of liquid minerals; subjected to heat for a second time; producing a glassy outer skin and the result after all this change is an object like no other, unique, the change is complete the object is fixed. My current work is influenced by nature and by geological change. The glaze is volcanic; it reacts and bubbles up to show craters and an uneven surface and hides what is beneath.
The bottle pot and open topped pot are both examples of recognisable forms that have been altered and the original form concealed under a thick layer of glassy glaze.
The large thrown bowl covered with a volcanic surface was fired to 1200°C. Its surface partly covers the form, but the thrown form is still recognisable.
The turquoise crimple top pot covered in a thin layer of volcanic glaze is still changing, the fine bubbles burst when touched and so the surface is still changing.
Large female form a hand built coil pot sits in my garden it is subjected to natural weathering, so the form is still evolving; slowly being covered with lichen and moss.