JOHN POPE
ARTIST PROFILE
I started making pottery just before retirement in 1995. Evening classes at our local Comprehensive followed eventually by various day courses, including the School of Art in Bristol, gave me a thoroughly pleasurable grounding in all aspects of pottery making.
And in retirement, this creative process has proved a most satisfying and absorbing journey.
I now concentrate on hand-built and slip-cast pieces using plaster-of-paris moulds which I make myself from my original clay models.
Working mainly with stoneware clays, but occasionally with earthenware including raku-fired items, I produce a unique and diverse range of ceramic forms such as mantle, pendulum and wall clocks, stylised creature figures, decorative vases and bowls etc.
My work is often influenced by Art Deco style and form and the natural world.
I am part of an artists’ co-operative at STUDIO3, Clevedon Craft Centre, Moor Lane, BS21 6TD where I have a display of my ceramics. We are open every day. www.studiothree.art
ARTIST PROFILE
I started making pottery just before retirement in 1995. Evening classes at our local Comprehensive followed eventually by various day courses, including the School of Art in Bristol, gave me a thoroughly pleasurable grounding in all aspects of pottery making.
And in retirement, this creative process has proved a most satisfying and absorbing journey.
I now concentrate on hand-built and slip-cast pieces using plaster-of-paris moulds which I make myself from my original clay models.
Working mainly with stoneware clays, but occasionally with earthenware including raku-fired items, I produce a unique and diverse range of ceramic forms such as mantle, pendulum and wall clocks, stylised creature figures, decorative vases and bowls etc.
My work is often influenced by Art Deco style and form and the natural world.
I am part of an artists’ co-operative at STUDIO3, Clevedon Craft Centre, Moor Lane, BS21 6TD where I have a display of my ceramics. We are open every day. www.studiothree.art