heathersweetmoon
I am self-taught ceramic sculptor. My passion for painting and sculpture began
as a young child and is still my main obsession in life, a means of expression,
my therapy, my greatest love. I add a quirky, sometimes humourus twist to my
female forms and my animal sculptures. I work from my imagination preferring to
avoid realism at all costs! My work is hand built useing coiling or slabbing
techniques. After fireing my pieces are finished using crackle glaze, underglaze
or stains which are wiped back to emphasise textures. I use grogged earthenware
and stoneware handbuilding clay. I sometimes paint fantasy designs with acrylics
and also teach in my home studio in Worcester. I am living my dream. My work has
been exhibited in UK galleries including Guildford House, Birmingham, Bowes
Museum, Gloucester, Wolverhampton, Worcester and many more. I also exhibit my
sculptures at the annual Showborough House sculpture exhibition, Twyning,
Tewkesbury. I have worked with different media over the years in the wedding
industry making wacky bride and groom wedding sculptures. I was commissioned by
the BBC to surprising chef Ainsley Harriott, with a caricature of himself on the
TV show Ready, Steady, Cook. I have also discussed my huge, wacky sculptures on
TV whilst exhibiting them in Bowes Museum, County Durham. A big thrill for me
was being commissioned to create small sculptures to be photographed for the
front cover of Vogue Italia. Another TV commission was lool a like clay figures
for celebrities Matt and Emma Willis. I sculpted a large chocolate wedding
centrepiece for actor/singer Gareth Gates.
