Sunday 1 December 2013

John Ward at the Stour Gallery

 
 
 
The Stour Gallery in Shipston-on-Stour 
 
I love John Ward's ceramics, the form, the surface decoration - they are perfet. 
 
'All work is handbuilt by pinching out a base then adding flattened coils of clay to produce hollow forms. These are sometimes altered at the leather-hard stage, by cutting and re-joining to create ridges or grooves between curving surfaces. Finally they are scraped and partly-burnished with a pebble. Glazes are applied by a combination of pouring, spraying and painting, sometimes with painted decoration underneath. All glazes are matt'.
 
'Form above all, but expressed through light and colour'.
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
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  1. Thank you for this post: I also love John Ward's work, but have not looked at it for many years now. We bought one of his pots with a gift of money for our 25th wedding anniversary, way back in '95. It is like the one at this link, except that ours is the shape of a flattened bottle/canteen http://hughkelly.co.uk/thecollection/?content%2FCeramics%2F60.09+WARD%2C+John.jpg

    I love his use of the light earth colours now as well as black and white.

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    1. You lucky thing, owning a John Ward! And such a gorgeous one! His work is so expensive now, it's only something I could dream of.

      Well, I think this was probably the last ceramics exhibition for a while! There are always lots around here in the autumn, and this one has been particularly good - I've had my fill. A friend who is also into ceramics tells me there's loads on in the summer as well, but we are never around for those. But, this autumn has been good.

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