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Richard Phethean's Gallery of New and Recent Work 

 

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, paper resist and fine sgrafitto detail are applied at the leather hard stage. 

After a bisque firing, areas of plain clay are inlaid with a slip wash, then the pieces are selectively wax resisted, before glazing and firing to 1120 degrees c.

 

 

1. Articulated vessel, clear glaze, h.55cm 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Articulated vessel, pale honey glaze, h.53cm 2011

 

 

 

 

3. Oval vessel, dark honey glaze, h.16cm 2011

 

3. Spouted oval vessel, dark honey glaze, h.32cm 2010

 

 

 4. Articulated vessel, clear glaze, h.33cm 2010

5. articulated vessel, pale honey glaze, h.45cm 2010

 

6. Bowl, pale honey glaze, w. 37cm 2010

 

 

7. Oval tea pot, clear glaze, h. 28cm 2010

8. Oval tea pot, pale honey glaze, h.29cm 2010

 

 

9. Oval vessel, clear glaze, h. 31cm 2010

10. Spouted oval vessel, clear glaze, h.25cm 2010

      

11. Spouted oval vessel, pale honey glaze, h. 36cm 2010

12. Mugs, dark honey and clear glaze, 2011

13. Mugs, pale honey glaze, 2010

 

 

14. Bowl, clear glaze, w.32cm 2010                       

  15. Articulated vessel, dark honey glaze, h.36cm, 2010

  

16. Oval vessel, pale honey glaze, h.17cm 2010

17. Oval vessel, clear glaze, h.11cm 2010

 

 

    RECENT WORK

             

  Articulated Vessel, dark honey glaze, h.53cm 2009                Articulated vessel, clear glaze, h.54cm 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articulated jug form, dark honey glaze, h 56cm 2006    

 

 

Articulated jug form, clear glaze, h. 59cm 2008

 

 

Cliff form, clear glaze, h.45cm 2008

                                                           

 

Cliff form, dark honey glaze, h.38cm 2007

                   

Cirque I, clear glaze, w.35cm 2008                                                                Cirque II, w.34cm 2008

 

 

Corrie I, dark honey glaze, h.34cm 2008

 

 

Oval tea pot, clear glaze, h.26cm 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For prices on all work, or if you 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.