| Introduction |
My name is Trudy Weir and I live in Sheffield U.K.
I mostly make stoneware slab vessels
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| What I Love about Ceramics |
The possibilities are endless
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| How I started with ceramics |
I did an art degree after early retirement and gravitated towards ceramics . I feel at home with my hands in mud.
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| What inspires me |
Reflections, shadows, silhouettes anything really I just don’t know when inspiration may strike .
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| What I'm working on at the moment |
With a departure from my usual work I am working on a garden gnome for a Christmas present for my uncle . He will be wearing an old fashioned scout outfit the gnome not my uncle but you never know !
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| My Artist Statement |
For some time now I have been mistreating Clay by laminating different stoneware bodies together to make a slab, then after adding different coloured slips stretching the slab before making my piece .Before stretching I blast the top surface with a heat gun and then when I roll it out the surface cracks . The piece is then made from the resulting patterned clay slab.
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| My CV |
I recently participated in OnlyClay at Kelham Island in Sheffield , prior to that various shows including Earth and Fire , Potfest in the Pens and Ceramic Wales etc.
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