Carolyn Genders

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​rhythm and flow 2023

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playful 2024

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‘My work comes from a place informed by my practice of looking and seeing - the interplay of colours, the counterbalance of textures, the energy of gestures and the constantly evolving pattern of my surroundings. My inspiration is internal, a conscious analytical series of responses to an ever expanding catalogue of understanding.’

Carolyn Genders

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Carolyn Genders is an established ceramic artist and printmaker based in the UK, well known for her individual ceramic sculptural vessels and forms and her unique relief prints. The essence of her practice is the relationship of form, line, brushstroke and colour, evident in both her works in clay and on paper.

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She creates bold ceramic sculptural vessels and forms handbuilt in white earthenware clay with surfaces of vitreous slips and burnished terra sigillata, and one-off relief prints of abstracted imagery. She works by responding to both her material and to the rhythms of the form as she moves around inscribing marks, incising and scarifying through layers of matt vitreous slips and burnished terra sigillata. Her finished pieces unite the physicality of working with clay and print with the potential of the created surfaces.

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There is a symbiotic relationship between ceramic and print: originally the ceramics inspired the prints suggesting motifs and colour palettes, but the vibrancy and translucence of the coloured inks and the immediacy of the printing techniques, so rapid in comparison to the more contemplative handbuilding ceramic techniques, seeped into treatment of the clay surfaces. This continues today: a block of time spent in the print studio is a free flow thought process which brings a fresh perspective to the ceramics. And so the creative circle moves on: ceramics prompting new thoughts in print and vice versa.

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