New Members of the Craft Potters Association (2)

Adele Howitt 

Adele Howitt utilises clay as both a sculptural and technical medium in which to investigate the notions of the living landscape, abstraction and natural patterns. Her continuing research includes drawing, printing, macro photography and microscopic imagery which she studies and develops into clay. Slab work is twisted and turned to add detailed relief utilising the traditional pottery techniques discovered whilst investigating the UK historic potteries.

Jihyun Kim  

Jihyun Kim’s work is inspired by Korean cultural heritage. She utilises elements from Korean fairy tales, folk beliefs and superstitions. Raised by her grandmother, Jihyun was taught certain habits and rituals to follow. After moving to a new country she realized how deeply her grandmother’s lessons had influenced her and made her cherish her ancestral teachings. Jihyun incorporates components from these stories into her work, interpreting them into functional and sculptural designs.

Miae Kim 

Attracted to the excitement of wondering what a closed form contains whilst drawing on her Korean heritage and experiences growing up in the USA, Miae Kim creates ceramic boxes. Her pieces explore the relationship between East and West, mixing fragments of old Korean motifs, repeated patterns from Korean architecture then mixing them with modern lines and simple patterns of the West.

Russell Kingston  

Russell Kingston works in the slipware tradition. His pots are made for the kitchen, oven and table with function at their heart to enhance the everyday cooking and eating experience. His work, while being deeply rooted in North Devon’s heritage and country pottery traditions, has a contemporary freshness to it. Russell’s pots are thrown, slabbed and extruded, using very few tools in order to preserve the human touch and champion the hand making processes, made quickly with confidence, capturing the energy of the making.

Liz O’Dwyer

The wheel thrown porcelain pieces Liz O’Dwyer creates are both functional and sculptural. The surface of each piece is linked by a continuous line that leads the veiwers’ eye over the contours of the form, from the outside surface, over edges, around the interiors and under the base. These crisp cobalt lines, alongside the purity of the porcelain, create a striking contrast that cuts through the surfaces.

Omer Oner

Omer Oner’s artistic practice revolves around the idea of repurposing found objects by regenerating and assembling them into highly crafted ceramic forms. Omer employs mould-making and slip-casting techniques to replicate and multiply a diverse array of discarded materials, providing the artist a wellspring of opportunity and inspiration.

Ella Porter 

Ella Porter is drawn to clay’s unique ability to preserve the act of making, as both conscious and unconscious moments of touch are held in the surface of the ceramic object. She explores ideas surrounding the mark of the maker, temporality, trace and place. Her work displays a strong relationship between surface and form and refers to historic ceramic artefacts, social and painting theory.

Jo Walker

Jo Walker creates both wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramics, primarily using the sgraffito technique for decoration. Her work draws inspiration from two distinct sources: the simplicity of modernist architecture alongside the bold, geometric patterns of mid-century design and the fragile beauty of wild plants and flowers.

Deiniol Williams

Ultimately, Deiniol Williams’ primary interest is in creating ceramic forms that push the boundaries of what clay is capable of and deliberately encourages what would commonly be referred to as a fault or an accident. The use of fluid glaze heightens the movement in the work and counterbalances the splits and cracks that appear as inclusions distort, melt and tear the structure of the clay.

Michelle Young-Hares 

Michelle Young-Hares’ ceramic sculptures aim to communicate a meaningful connection to the natural world through a joyful expression of form, texture, and pattern in clay. The artist has a particular interest in botany and plant forms and draws imagery from their reproductive organs which she find to be exquisitely beautiful and innovative in design.