Jenny Southam

Jenny Southam studied Fine Art in Bristol where she developed her practice in Sculpture, gravitating towards bronze. After several years working as a sculptor and bronze-casting assistant in Gloucestershire she moved to Devon, where she embraced clay as her medium of choice. For thirty years her family, home, garden and studio has formed an integrated whole.

The ideas for her hand-built and hand-decorated figurative ceramic sculptures draw from the realms of European and English mythology, from domestic incidents and rituals, and more recently, from a rich seam of stories handed down through her ancestral Nordic forebears.

Her figures are often placed within a pew, a bower, a garden or an enclosure of trees. Many suggest moments when men, women and animals are frozen in a critical, dramatic juxtaposition.

Jenny predominantly uses a lightly grogged terracotta, which is sensitive enough to pick up the most subtle of modeled figurative expressions and nuances. Each ceramic piece is individually conceived and its exploration is unique. An important element of each sculpture is the slip decoration, which aims to enhance the emotional resonance of the work.

“When I enter the studio I am searching for that serene state of absolute absorption that making and drawing can gift us, which we all wish will, in some manner, enrich our audience.” – Jenny Southam

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granite base JS314Y197
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Black Cat JS314Y89
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cat JS314Y257
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milk tray man JS314Y256
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man offering tea JS314Y255
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man offering flowers JS314Y254
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woman with vase 2 JS314Y252
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the forest JS314Y250
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ribbed jumper JS314Y249
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pink crochet II JS314Y248
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happy chappy JS314Y246
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leaning woman JS314Y233
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woman in blue dress JS314Y232
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orange dress JS314Y231
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blue boys JS314Y230
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tweed skirt JS314Y229
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smelling a flower JS314Y218
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Big boots JS314Y210
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Headscarf JS314Y201
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Flame bush JS314Y198
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little bee JS314Y263
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happy JS314Y244
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