I have retired after more than thirty years of teaching and lecturing but I continue to exhibit and sell.
Previously known for my lead glazed slipware: more than 100 commemorative plates have been commissioned, several for the permanent collection at Northampton Museum.
My current work sees a return to simple thrown vessels in oxidised stoneware and some raku. I have had a lifelong preoccupation with the bowl: the simplest and oldest of vessels which rests in cupped hands and almost floats upon the surface that it is placed upon.
I feature birds as decorative motifs as images in plates and handles and knobs on pots. I also make stylised garden birds.
Images of this work and my working methods feature in:-
?Raku? John Mathieson, A&C Black Ceramic Handbook
?Techniques using Slip? John Mathieson, Macmillan
?500? Plates and Chargers? Lark Ceramic Books
?500? Raku? Lark Ceramic Books
?The Best of 500 Ceramics? Lark Ceramic Books
I relocated to Scotland in 2013 and now sell work through The Barony Centre, Craft Town Scotland,West Kilbride. North Ayrshire.
Previously known for my lead glazed slipware: more than 100 commemorative plates have been commissioned, several for the permanent collection at Northampton Museum.
My current work sees a return to simple thrown vessels in oxidised stoneware and some raku. I have had a lifelong preoccupation with the bowl: the simplest and oldest of vessels which rests in cupped hands and almost floats upon the surface that it is placed upon.
I feature birds as decorative motifs as images in plates and handles and knobs on pots. I also make stylised garden birds.
Images of this work and my working methods feature in:-
?Raku? John Mathieson, A&C Black Ceramic Handbook
?Techniques using Slip? John Mathieson, Macmillan
?500? Plates and Chargers? Lark Ceramic Books
?500? Raku? Lark Ceramic Books
?The Best of 500 Ceramics? Lark Ceramic Books
I relocated to Scotland in 2013 and now sell work through The Barony Centre, Craft Town Scotland,West Kilbride. North Ayrshire.
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