
contemporary art gallery Arundel West Sussex UK
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Wendy Farley - Christmas exhibition and Black and White exhibition
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Wendy is a ceramic artist and teacher working from her studio in West Sussex.
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Her work is hand built, mostly coiled and pinched with some slab work. Inspiration comes from everything she sees but particularly from the sea, nature and ethnographical art and craft.
She has always been interested in simplicity and purity of form using smoke firing as a technique to enhance shape allowing for balance between the control one can inflict and the accidental markings from smoke and fire.
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Texture and colour feature in some work as a contrast to burnished areas and the natural smokey colours.
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Wendy's recent work has moved away from burnishing by using a heavily textured crank body with oxides, underglazes and slips firing to mid stoneware temperatures.

T material and porcelain, porcelain slip, burnished and smoke fired, 44cms high Photo: Maria Riese

Description as previous image Photo Maria Riese

T material and porcelain, porcelain slip, burnished and smoked, 42 cms high Photo Maria Riese

Description as previous image Photo Maria Riese

T maetrial and porcelain, porcelain slip, burnished and smoke fired, 45 cms high Photo: Maria Riese

Burnished and pit fired

Burnished and pit fired

Burnished and pit fired

Large pot, multiple firings, 41cms high

large vessel, multiple firings 43cms high SOLD

Small burnished, smoke fired vessels

Small burnished, smoke fired vessels

2 x small round pots with smoked rims, burnished and smoke fired 1 small black and 1 grey round pot burnished and smoke fired

small and larger white pots with smoked rims, burnished and smoke fired

White pot with smoked rim, burnished smoke fired

Burnished, smoke fired vessel

Burnished, smoke fired vessel

3 x burnished, smoke fired vessels

Crank clay body, pinched and coiled, textured, slips, oxides and underglaze colours

Smoke fired dish

White stoneware body, pinched and coiled, textured, slips, oxide and underglaze colour

White stoneware body, pinched,and coiled, textured, slips, oxide and underglaze

White stoneware body, pinched and coiled, textured, slips, oxide and underglaze colour

White stoneware body, pinched, underglaze, slips and oxides

white stoneware body, burnished, pinched, underglaze, slips and oxides and larger pot pinched and coiled, crank clay body, slips, oxides and underglaze colours

Burnished, white stoneware body, pinched, underglaze, slips and oxides

Textured pot, pinched and coiled, crank clay body, slips,oxides and underglaze colours

Textured pot, pinched and coiled, crank clay body, slips, oxides and underglaze colours