BA (Hons) Ceramics 2004 

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June Diamond

Tel 07814 086936

Close your bodily eye so that you may first see your
picture with your mind’s eye. Then bring to the light of day
what you have seen in the day, so that it may reflect back
on others from outside to inside.
Casper David Freidrich (1830)

My work uses traces, which mark the existence or passing of my experiences.  These traces follow the course or position of my feelings as I experience or remember them, in the same way as a finger leaves a trace when pressure is exerted.  Whether it is visible to the eye or not it is there and will remain.

I aim to express this through the thrown vessel form.  I explore surface decoration through a relief and colour.  My source material is derived from home landscape, the colours and textures of flora and fauna within it.

I am exploring two bodies of work, the first using bold coloured reduction glazes suggesting the farmed landscape.  The second using celadon glazes to enhance the spiral, thus suggesting a calm reflective environment.

I am keen for the viewer to experience the pots tactile qualities.  I use the spiral, which expresses a feeling of vastness and persistence, a continuum that can be illusive, fragile and precious.