Louise Darby Ceramics

Held over the first weekend of june and last of november these four day exhibitions have gained a reputation for the exciting variety and high standard of craftsmanship in the work shown and its presentation at this welcoming venue.
Louise darby ceramics. In 1983 she set up her own studio specialising in finely thrown stoneware and porcelain ceramics making the techniques of incising and carving very much her own. The artists attend during the. Though she specialised in ceramics photography continued to play an important inspirational role and she now enjoys exhibiting her photographs in their own right alongside her ceramics. Photography has always been part of louise s creative process.
Due to the coronavirus situation my clay barn exhibitions are cancelled. Louise relishes the freedom to just point and press there is something so satisfying about capturing a moment framing an. Louise specialises in finely thrown stoneware and porcelain. Stylised images of animals and plants are cut freehand into the leather hard clay and after biscuit firing are inlaid with glazes by pouring dipping scraping and sponging before the glaze firing in a 10cu ft ceramic fibre gas kiln to 1280Âșc.
Louise draws stylised images freehand into the leather hard clay and. Louise darby artist and potter. Potter louise darby creates a range of decorative white stoneware and porcelain ceramics from her converted barn home and studio in warwickshire. With five returning exhibitors and introducing artist illustrator carolyn carter and stained glass artist and printmaker frans wesselman new to clay barn.
Samantha bryan sculpture february 24 2020 4 23 pm lindsey kidd sculpture february 24 2020 4 18 pm ann burnham printmaking february 24 2020 4 11 pm nikki williams glass september 18 2019 12 25 pm shelley faye lazar hand painted textiles textiles may 29 2019 11 28 am ian phillips printmaking may 29 2019 11 14 am richard windley wooden boxes wood mixed media. Alongside her ceramics she sells her photographs as framed pictures and greetings cards. Louise has a small well stocked showroom at her studio and welcomes visitors by appointment please. Photographs by louise darby.
Louise holds biannual mixed media group exhibitions at her workshop clay barn near stratford upon avon. Louise darby ceramics and photography opens her studio and garden for the first of her two 2018 exhibitions. Together showing eight disciplines. Over the last 30 years she has developed a range of work perfecting her own technique of carving animated images of animals including cats frogs and hares freehand on to the leather hard clay of plates and vases.