"Crackling with Colour" at Crieff

Here's a few photos of the show at the Strathearn Gallery in Crieff.

I'm sure you'll agree that the paintings and ceramics all go wonderfully  well together - all three artists were delighted when we saw the exhibition all hung!

Anne's 'Reliquary for Ellen' can be seen on the plinth below my painting "Rosebay Willowheb at Camusdarach".  Anne's sculpture is all about her family history, and has small photos of her relatives, reproductions of letters and found objects.

Here's Anne at the preview, with some more of her ceramics, showing the raku-fired 'crackle glaze' which gives the name to the show.  As part of the process of the firing, the glaze cracks, allowing smoke to get in to the cracks, causing the patterns on the surface of the pot.

This is my large Morecambe Bay piece "Sweep of the Bay", where the lovely greys and pinks are cleverly picked out by two pieces by Anne positioned below it.

 

Anne's crackle-glaze pots also work well with Emma's painting (seen on the right), and the lacework included in the painting is also echoed in Anne's little found-object sculpture 'Love Potion'.

Her Harvest Moon piece also echoes the subject matter and foreground plant forms in my painting, above left.

Pottery Demonstration

My friend Anne Morrison is a well-known potter and award-winning ceramic sculptor (and niece of Joan Eardley, co-incidently) (oh, and she has the same birthday as me!).

These are some of her amazing raku-fired pots, which have found-driftwood handles.

This weekend she's holding a demonstration to show how she makes her hand-built pots and sculptures.  Here's some of her mixed-media sculptures, which combine found items such as drifted and wire, along with slumped glass and ceramic figures.

Anne Morrison, On the Edge (driftwood/ceramic)

I own this one...

Anne Morrison, They Dreamed Their Dreams So We Could Live Them (Wood/Glass/Mixed) 

It has old family photos and letters transferred onto the found wood and the fused glass elements of the piece.  It's very feminine and tactile.

If you'd like to see more, then Anne will be at the 

Lillie Art Gallery, Station Road, Milngavie G62 8DZ (near Glasgow) from 10am to 3.30pm on Saturday 8th September 

and she's happy for you have a chat and to watch her work.  So if you're in the area, please do drop by!

Contact her on annemorrisonpots@hotmail.co.uk

Visit her website here.