Clay & Plaster

Kathy Pallie

she enjoyed a career in commercial art, designing products for retail store windows and interior displays, trade show booths and special events. This involved working with many different materials. When she retired and put my hands into clay, she knew this was an exciting material which she explored further.

Texture and surface exploration integrated with a 3-dimensional form have always been an important part of her work. her hands manipulate the clay by pushing, pulling, pinching, incising and rolling it, creating an effect which evokes both the visual and the tactile senses.

Nicole Sisco Heller

Nicole Sisco Heller is an artist and middle school art teacher in Warwick, New York.

She uses art to teach her classes, mainly clay foods, such as pie. She uses the colour and texture to involve her students in the work,

Victor Spinski

In the later 1970's, one of his collectors commissioned him to design a non-traditional tea set. Through his research on various teaposts forms, he discovered that his art shared a conceptual philosophy with the work of the Yixing artisans of eastern China.

The Yxing (pronounced yesshing) artists indulged in the use of improbable materials, such as tree trunks, disfigured branches, fruits and rocks, in designing their teapot forms. The execution of these forms was exquisite, both in design and craftsmanship.

Beate Kuhn

In 1957 Beate Kuhn moved to Düdelsheim and set up her own workshop.Since the early 1960’s Beate Kuhn has created freely designed sculptures, each piece consisting of individual thrown and cut elements, assembled into a whole.

The works of Beate Kuhn are known in the whole world. Her awards and honors are numerous. Beate Kuhn’s artistic work is characterized by her pottery: the potter’s wheel is her base tool. The sheer number of one-off pieces by the artist – more than 1,500, all bear her unmistakable and fascinating personal touch.

Annie Woodford

Annie Woodford studied at the Royal College of Art in London, receiving a travel scholarship and graduating with a MA in Ceramics and Glass. Shortly after graduating, she had her first solo show at the Royal Overseas League and the Anatol Orient Gallery, London, began to represent her work, introducing it to collectors in the both the U.K. and the U.S.A. Since then, Woodford’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in private and public collections worldwide.

Introduced to printmaking by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, who was her tutor, it has become an integral part of her practice and she continues to develop the medium alongside object making, using it to explore the themes and concerns fundamental to her work. Short-listed for major awards, Woodford’s etchings and collagraphs are part of several important print collections and recently she has begun to explore the medium of artists’ books