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ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY | |||||||||||||||||
| Christine-Ann Richards trained at Harrow School of Art and Technology with Mick Casson (1971-73), then worked with David Leach. In London, she started her own workshop as a member of the Barbican Arts Group (1975-83) and in 1976 was elected to membership of the Craftsmen Potters Association and the Society of Designer Craftsmen. She now works from her home, a converted chapel near Frome in Somerset. |
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Christine-Ann
has worked in thrown
porcelain for more than twenty years, firing in an oxidising
atmosphere and specialising in crackle and monochrome glazes. A study
trip to China in 1978 with the Craftsmen Potters Association had a
radical effect on her work and way of life. She has pursued Chinese
studies and returns regularly to China often accompanying
fellow artists. Since 1989 Christine-Ann has also been working with a vitrified earthenware clay making large pots and water features. The summer of 1992 she spent on an international workshop in Tokoname in Japan and in 1996 she received a Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowship to return there to “explore the way water is used in landscape architecture”. A project award from South West Arts has enabled her to develop some of the ideas evolved from the trip. In 1997 she was named ‘Somerset Craftsperson of the Year’ for her new work. |
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OTHER ACTIVITIES | |||||||||||||||||
| Travelling,
photography, reading, classical music, Tai Qi. Knowledge of French
and Chinese. Organise art and archaeological oriented tours to China, Far East and Central Asia |
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INTERNET LINKS | |||||||||||||||||
| www.studiopottery.co.uk | ||||||||||||||||||
| www.axisweb.org | ||||||||||||||||||
| www.cpaceramics.co.uk | ||||||||||||||||||
| www.societyofdesignercraftsmen.org.uk | ||||||||||||||||||
| www.somersetguild.co.uk | ||||||||||||||||||
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