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LATVIA PRESENTATION

Posted on 14th October 2012.
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Many thanks to everyone who shared my Latvian experience with me at the Centre For Better Health Gallery.

I hope you enjoyed the presentation and found it interesting & informative and that everyone who joined the workshop had a good creative session in overglaze painting, it certainly seemed to me that everybody was very focused & enthusiastic. The assembled plates & tiles at the end of the session looked great!

It was great that the London based Latvian textile artist Astrida Berzina heard about the day and participated. Her insights into some aspects of life in Latvia were fascinating. Check out her excellent work on her website

http://astridaberzina.com/

‘CELEBRATION’ OPENING NIGHT AT FORMAN’S GALLERY

Posted on 5th October 2012.
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Excellent opening night at Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery to celebrate the opening of ‘Celebration: the Big Picture’. Many thanks to everybody who came, I hope you enjoyed it!

Many thanks as well to the organizers, artists & helpers (especially personal thanks to Nik & my brother Manu for all their support & help)

If anybody has any photos of the opening night that they really like, I would love to see them! (please send them to the email in the contact page)

Stoke-on -Trent Ceramics Biennial at Spode

Posted on 30th October 2011.
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Part 1

Spode, an empty ceramic factory in Stoke host the Ceramic Biennial 2011

My arrival to Spode, one of the largest, oldest, empty factories in Stoke on Trent brought me a mix of feelings with it. Initially I was struck by the grandeur of the factory and imagined it with all the people working in the production of the famous white and blue ware that they used to export everywhere. Later on the cheap labor & production of this ware in Indonesia and China culminate in the closing of more that 160 ceramic factories around Stoke on Trent.

The ghost factory host for the second year the ceramic biennial where a representation of the work produced by new ceramicists in British Universities and studios (and a beautiful memory and representation of the people who worked there) brings an open door to the continuing practice of ceramics in Britain. Coming full circle the ceramics is once again made by individual potters who had been replaced by the now redundant pottery industry.

Maria Alvarez Echenique & Carlos Gonzales Perez Exhibition

Posted on 21st October 2011.
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An exhibition of works by Maria Alvarez Echenique & Carlos Gonzalez Perez (to raise funds for The Centre For Better Health)

Alvarez Echenique’s body of work to date presents unusual perspectives on humanity’s complex relationship with surrounding environments, both ‘natural’ and ‘man made’.

The pieces have a dreamlike quality; influences among others, coming from the 20^thcentury Surrealist movement, earlier European Romantic traditions, world folk art & even aspects of science fiction.

The works take the viewer on a journey into a world where the fusion of the natural and the human sometimes seems to be in harmony and respect, and other times appears to be wilder and darker.

Parallax Art Fair, art, artists & fun

Posted on 3rd July 2011.
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Many thanks to everyone who came to the show and supported me and to my fellow artists. It has been a great show and more than 500 people came to the private view on Thursday and around 200 on Saturday. I hope you enjoy it!