I make stoneware pots on a momentum wheel I made from reclaimed wood, based on a design kindly shared by Nic Collins. My influences are medieval English pottery, Bernard Leach and his school and traditional Japanese and Korean pottery.

I use simple glazes made from washed hardwood ashes, granite dusts and clay. Most of the pots I make are to be used on a daily basis or on special occasions.

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Initial investigations into folding began as an aid to realising form. This modelling soon began to centre on single sheets of material undergoing gradual change until new, more sophisticated forms are created. The transformation of a single sheet into an object of volume both challenges and inspires me as I marry new discoveries with old, creating individual or related forms, each with a sense of their own internal logic. 

Throughout this work I have been concerned with issues of frailty and transience, an opposition to our general expectation of things mathematical, where we anticipate control, predictability, security and hope.

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Our premise at Studio Arts is to enable serious amateur artists and those with less experience to achieve a level of confidence and ability that will allow them to produce their own independent artwork. To this end we teach basic skills in drawing and painting while encouraging an imaginative and creative response to their own ideas.

Please visit studioartsliverpool.co.uk to see our achievements and the variety of exhibitions to which the students have contributed.

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It is important for me that there are visible references to real things in my painting even if they themselves do not depict a definite reality. Hence there are references to historical events and hints at social comment and contemporary issues; straight forward studies from the everyday and a mix of imaginary and remembered landscape.

Each of these is a response to what has happened or is happening and is linked on a subconscious level to the need to react to an impulse.

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I am an artist, curator, educator and researcher based in Liverpool. I sculpt hybrid image-forming instruments from the ancient and intimate co-evolution of optics and architecture.

From celestially aligned megaliths to the omnivoyance of surveillance, the built environment forms a vast self aware optical instrument. The relatively unmediating singularity of the pinhole camera's aperture has proven the ideal breach through which to return this urban gaze and locate the dark matter of its blind spots.

Combining the divinatory and metrical functions of the surveyor I deploy these hand built seeing machines to form adiagnosis of the volumes we inhabit.

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Brendan Lyons investigates and celebrates the material of paint itself. His practise not only attempts to test the viewer’s perceptions of painting and objects by referencing that mediums histories and contexts but is also just happy to celebrate the material of paint itself, especially in its most viscous state and to flow with it in playful abstraction.

Many of his works fall within the illusionistic Trompe L’oeil tradition. Look closely – what may appear at first to be various types of tape, staples and black plastic bags are not so, and are in fact just areas of dried and solid paint, manipulated to give a three dimensional illusion of those things. Other works are playful and almost fantastical, creating little worlds of interactions. Brushstrokes and paint splashes which almost seem to be alive with movement that has been frozen in a moment of activity.

Contact: http://www.instagram.com/lyons.brendan

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I make things.

Contact: http://www.tabithamoses.co.uk

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My love for clay started in 1997 when I attended a night school course in pottery and once I handled the clay I was hooked. 

I design and make one-off sculptural pieces and multiple glazed, hand thrown work and as a designer maker of ceramics I am creating different objects, challenging the material and myself on a daily basis.

My aim is simply to be good at what I design and make, so that people can appreciate and enjoy my work. My influences are largely architectural in nature, and include natural and organic forms that harmoniously combine tension, balance and proportion. 

I do not use devices of mass production in my work. I consider the qualities imparted only by the’ handmade’ object of the most importance, this way each piece I create embodies a unique and personal factor.

Contact: simon@ssjsmithceramics.co.uk

Steve Rooney and Sue Williams are professional freelance artists, whose practise covers Photography,ranging from the traditional (use of dark room for processing black & white images) to experimental work using chemicals for special effects, colour andDigital imaging.  Printmaking; using innovative materials to make expressive prints alongside the more traditional.  Installation;includes three dimensional and site specific work and finally Paintingusing a wide range of techniques, media and dimensions.

 Sue and Steve are also members of The Artists Group known as TAG. and have a well established track record regarding their work with consultancy, wellbeing and creativity, community groups and organisations.

 Contacting TAG: Steve Rooney Sue Williams Bridewell Studios, 101 Prescot St. Liverpool L7 8UL
0151-261 0187    tag.art@btinternet.com

I graduated from John Moores University with a BA(Honours) in Fine Art in 1993 and Cert.Ed in Teaching and Training in Further and Higher Education in 2002. I have had a studio at the Bridewell Studios since 1994. I spent 14 years lecturing in Fine Art, and Art and Design while continuing my own studio practice and exhibiting. I have exhibited works in Liverpool and across the North West of England. I am now working as an artist and also run art classes for adults, set up under the name ‘Liverpool Community Arts’.

My work is abstract and inspired by landscape and natural environments, particularly in capturing fleeting moments that create visual drama, be it changing light, contrasting colour and texture or the effects of weather. The dramatic landscapes and skies of the Pennines, Northern Ireland and Snowdonia are the main inspiration for much of my work. I work mainly in oils on canvas but also create mixed media relief pieces, and drawings on paper using inks and varnish. Strong colour contrasts and use of texture are key elements I use in creating my oil paintings, drawings and mixed media pieces.

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