of Pots and Prints…
Angela Harding - Printmaker and Illustrator
Mark Hearld - Prints
John Broadley - Printmaker
Sarah Clutton - Printmaker and Illustrator
Joe Finch - Studio Pottery
Simon Hubert - Ceramics
Richard Studer - Linocuts & Collagraphs
Nia Bennett - Sculpture
Angela Harding
Angela Harding works from her rural studio in the Rutland countryside. Her work explores the wildlife that she finds within the landscape through a mixture of linocut and screen print techniques. Often incorporating an implied narrative, her prints are a pathway through the British hills, valleys, and coastlines.
Mark Hearld
Mark is one of the UK’s most imaginative artists. Working in a variety of mediums his pieces are fun, inventive and brilliantly colourful.
Owl Watching is his latest screen print in a limited edition of 95 and hangs merrily in the gallery alongside ‘Goose’ a farmyard foray by Mark…
Simon Hubert
Simons recent porcelain pots made in Hay-on-Wye remain on a small intimate scale designed to fit into the hand and have a function or a number of uses. The Gallery is hosting a wide selection of Simons new work in porcelain. Each piece is unique - from his tiny thrown tapering cylinders glazed in a combination of honey and deep red brown to his equisite moon vases.
Joe Finch - Studio Pottery
Joe Finch started his pottery career in 1964 with a four-year apprenticeship training under his father, Ray Finch, at Winchcombe Pottery..
In 1968 he travelled to Africa where he was sponsored to establish Kolonyama Pottery, Lesotho’s first studio pottery.
They moved to Wales in 1984, living first in Powys and then in 1990 on to West Wales. Here, in a workshop converted from a stone barn, Joe first made earthenware using an electric kiln. However, having secured a supply of wood, he returned to producing stoneware in a redesigned large wood-fired kiln.
He is also known as a kiln builder and has built kilns for many other potters in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He recently built a second kiln for himself which is a wood-fired catenary-arch which he uses for soda glaze.
Over the years he has demonstrated throwing and kiln building at many colleges and pottery events throughout the UK and overseas.
The Quizzicock - Richard Studer - Limited edition Linocut
The latest work from the studio is ‘The Quizzicock’ a mythical bird inspired by the poem of the same name by Welsh based poet Nicholas Murray. Printed on Somerset 300gm paper in eco-friendly ink with 24carat gold highlights.
“waiting to be classified,
fitted in, pinned down.
But first a squawk
and upward dart,
glitter of that gold’
North Norfolk Tryptych - Angela Harding
Individual Image Size: 430 x 470mm.
Paper size: 540 x 560mm
Morston Fox, the first new print in our set depicts the quay at Morston in Norfolk and furtive fox watching a lone walker and his dog. The second print Church Cottage Morston follows the scene further to the far shore and the distinctive shape of All Saints church where more dog walkers reflect Angela’s love whippets. In the final print in the series Angela looks further to the shore line at Blakeney and the distinctive sight of avocets making their way along the coastline.
