Pottery

All images are copyright of the artist unless stated otherwise.

Sheila's work can usually be found at:

- Cupola Gallery, Middlewood, Sheffield

- Ropewalk Gallery, Barton on Humber

- Turnstone Gallery, Sandsend  near  Whitby

She will be participating in the Northern Lights Christmas Exhibition in the Craft Centre and Design Gallery Leeds.  5th November 2011 - 14th January 2012

via our contact page, please

I made my first pot as a child.  It was a teapot made with clay dug from the garden and baked in the oven of the Yorkshire Range.  It was painted yellow and purple and it poured, though filling it with water proved to be the end of the piece.

I produce high fired slip decorated earthenware using red clay and lead glaze, mainly bowls and plates and tiles.

I love gardening and this is reflected in my work.

I like the watercolour feel that using washes of coloured slip produces, building up transparent layers.

I like to write on my pots; maybe I am just a graffiti artist at heart. The words come from many sources: The Bible, poems, old sayings and just nice things people say.

I do not have a grand artist's statement, I just make pots and some people like them enough to buy them.

I have been making pots for a long time and I am still amazed and excited by the alchemy that changes messy clay into a bright shiny object for which people are prepared to pay good money.