Eva Smith is one of a group of potters whose work will be on show in
Eynsham next weekend.Eva became passionate about working with clay after she started classes at Sunningwell School of Art twelve years ago. She learned about pottery in general pottery and later clay sculpture with live models. She says:
"I have always enjoyed experimenting with a diverse range of ceramics, letting the creative and instinctive process, and the clay itself, lead me to sometimes unexpected results! My ceramics range from figurative and abstract sculpture, to more functional but unusual hand-built one-off pieces in porcelain, white stoneware and other clays, to thrown pieces. I love using brightly coloured glazes and a range of finishes, often painting these on the bisque-fired piece.
"When a
place was offered in the co-operative Old Forge Pottery, with its historic blacksmith's range, bellows, anvil, tools left intact
from when the smithy closed in the1950's, I happily accepted this, as the time
constraints of classes limited what Icould do. I now spend a day or
two a week in this most creative space alongside the
rest of the group who pot there."