£230.00
Thrown and altered vessel
Earthenware
Coloured Slip 20cm x 15cm
2020
In stock
A painter by inclination, Barry Stedman’s ceramics are preceded by paintings in watercolour or gouache, often made in the open air, where he is inspired by the light and patterns in the sky and the farms and fields visible from his home. The work evokes memories of early mornings, fresh, flickering sunlight, summer gardens full of the saturated hues of pinks, purples and evanescent greens and long afternoon shadows.
Changing surroundings, such as those experienced on a moving train, also inform his work. These paintings are then reworked into larger, more abstract, oil paintings and ultimately lead to the ceramics, which he creates in red clay with coloured slips. He works intuitively and energetically and because the true colours of the pieces only emerge after firing, there is always an element of chance in his work, which retains its spontaneity and freshness. Having been educated at Barnfield College, Luton Barry was a ceramics graduate of Harrow (University of Westminster), where he achieved a first-class honours degree. Barry is currently an assistant in Edmund de Waal’s studio.
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