Louise Darby Ceramics

Photography has always been part of louise s creative process.

Louise darby ceramics. Held over the first weekend of june and last of november these four day exhibitions have gained a reputation for the exciting variety and high standard of craftsmanship in the work shown and its presentation at this welcoming venue. In 1983 she set up her own studio specialising in finely thrown stoneware and porcelain ceramics making the techniques of incising and carving very much her own. Louise darby artist and potter. Together showing eight disciplines.

Alongside her ceramics she sells her photographs as framed pictures and greetings cards. Potter louise darby creates a range of decorative white stoneware and porcelain ceramics from her converted barn home and studio in warwickshire. Louise relishes the freedom to just point and press there is something so satisfying about capturing a moment framing an. Louise draws stylised images freehand into the leather hard clay and.

The artists attend during the. Due to the coronavirus situation my clay barn exhibitions are cancelled. With five returning exhibitors and introducing artist illustrator carolyn carter and stained glass artist and printmaker frans wesselman new to clay barn. Louise specialises in finely thrown stoneware and porcelain.

Samantha bryan sculpture february 24 2020 4 23 pm lindsey kidd sculpture february 24 2020 4 18 pm ann burnham printmaking february 24 2020 4 11 pm nikki williams glass september 18 2019 12 25 pm shelley faye lazar hand painted textiles textiles may 29 2019 11 28 am ian phillips printmaking may 29 2019 11 14 am richard windley wooden boxes wood mixed media. Louise holds biannual mixed media group exhibitions at her workshop clay barn near stratford upon avon. Louise darby has been a professional potter since graduating from loughborough college of art and design in 1978. Stylised images of animals and plants are cut freehand into the leather hard clay and after biscuit firing are inlaid with glazes by pouring dipping scraping and sponging before the glaze firing in a 10cu ft ceramic fibre gas kiln to 1280ºc.

Louise has a small well stocked showroom at her studio and welcomes visitors by appointment please. Louise darby ceramics and photography opens her studio and garden for the first of her two 2018 exhibitions. Though she specialised in ceramics photography continued to play an important inspirational role and she now enjoys exhibiting her photographs in their own right alongside her ceramics. She also takes informal lifestyle family portrait commissions and photographs work for fellow artists.