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| Shirley Leslyn Sheppard | |
I am confident in a wide variety of materials and techniques, but I feel most comfortable using soft malleable materials such as yarns, fabrics and more recently clay. I love to exploit the unique sensibility and plasticity of clay and I am completely entranced by the way that it is transformed by firing from soft earth into hard ceramics. The natural progression from fabric to clay has always been underlined by my love of colour and texture. The use of colour, a universal silent language, allows me to make bold statements both humorously and seriously and, linked with emotion, has formed an important part of my work. |
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| About the Artist | |
Having no functional use, my work is purely ornamental and therefore, it must evoke something, by way of a reaction, from the observer or it has failed. To date I am primarily a maker using traditional pottery skills in ceramics, such as coil-building and reconstructed slip-castings, with an emphasis very much on individual pieces rather than mass-produced multiples. |
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Three men and their boot Fetish
2007 |
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| Slip casts, assembled earthenware with decals |
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Old Dungerness Lighthouse
2007 |
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Beachy Head Lighthouse
2007 |
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| Slip casts, assembled earthenware with stains |
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Morphing birth of an Angel
2007 |
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| Slip casts, assembled earthenware with stains and oxides |
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Audrey
2007 |
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| Slip casts, assembled earthenware with stains and feathers |
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What lay between....I Touched the Spirit of Pett Level
2008 |
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| Oil on canvas |
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| Education and biography | |
| In July 2005 I was awarded a First Class Honours degree in Art & Design (Crafts) from Brighton University. Sussex Festival of Art 2007 Rye, East Sussex The Stables Gallery Hastings Open Studio & Exhibition Prout's House Old Town Hastings |
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| Future shows | |
| A Stitch in Time, Textile Art, The Stables Art Gallery, The Bourne, Hastings Monday 13 October to Sunday 16 November |
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| Website: www.shirleyleslyn.co.uk | |
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