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Richard Phethean's Gallery of Recent Work 

 

The main body of Richard's work is sculptural, using the potter's wheel to create vessel forms from sectional, altered and assembled thrown and additional slab elements. These are made in a coarse-grogged red earthenware clay. The brushed slips and fine sgrafitto detail are applied at the leather hard stage.  Most recently, some pieces have been made in     response to geological formations                 weathering and coastal landscapes.

After a bisque firing, areas of plain clay are inlaid with an engobe wash, then the pieces are selectively wax resisted, before glazing and firing to 1125 degrees c.

 

 

Listing, oval jug form, clear glaze, h.59cm 2007

 

 

 Articulated jug form, clear glaze, h.71cm 2006

 

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Oval, listing jug form, dark honey glaze, h.54cm 2007

 

 Listing, oval jug form, clear glaze, h.45cm 2007

Listing, oval jug form, dark honey glaze, h.46cm 2007

 

Hexagonal cut rim bowl, w. 58cm 2006   

Listing oval tea pot, dark honey glaze, h. 31cm 2007

Oval tea pot, clear glaze, h. 29cm 2007

 

 

Tall, listing jug form, clear glaze, h. 77cm 2007

Tall, listing jug form, dark honey glaze, h.94cm 2006

 

 

Listing oval jug form, clear glaze, h. 59cm 2007

 

 

Cliff I, dark honey glaze, h. 44cm 2008

 

 

 

 

                      

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For prices on all work, or if you would like your name to be added to a mailing list for future exhibitions and fairs, contact Richard Phethean by phone or email:

Tel: 01295 780041(home) 01295 781277(studio)    Email: richard@richardphethean.co.uk

 

 

Sculptural piece commissioned by West Oxfordshire District Council, 2007

'STRATA'

Diptych of thrown and altered sections in coarse grogged stoneware and terra cotta clays, brushed slips, sgrafitto, inlaid engobe and wax resist. Transparent clear and honey glazes. h.80cm, w.90cm

 

'Strata' - commissioned to coincide with an exhibition of contemporary studio ceramics at the Oxfordshire museum in Woodstock, the work celebrates the achievements of William Smith, born in 1769, the son of a blacksmith in Churchill, near Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire.

Now recognised as, 'the father of British geology', in 1815, 'Strata' Smith, as he became known, published the first national geological map anywhere in the world. His observations made during his work as a surveyor for the coal industry and the 18th century canal building boom, enabled him to explain the origin of fossils and their significance in the accurate aging and classification of the sedimentary layers beneath the surface of the land, and ultimately, the identification, inclination and outcrop of all the rock types that formed the English landscape.