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Individual Studio Pottery by Jo Connell

 

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Jo Connell has for many years combined running a ceramics studio with teaching, latterly at North Warwickshire & Hinckley College as leader of the HND Ceramics and Glass programme. In 1999 she left mainstream education to concentrate on making ceramics and now exhibits widely in the UK and abroad. 

In 2002, “The Potters Guide to Ceramic Surfaces” – a practical guide to decorating, glazing and firing studio ceramics –  was published in the USA and the UK. This is now available in 4 other languages.   Jo is a member of the Craft Potters Association and a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.

“Through working with clay for many years I have developed a personal language of expression, based on acquired skills and knowledge of techniques. My work explores many of the fascinating qualities of clay, the material itself being my major source of inspiration. Subtle colour, texture and form combine to produce surfaces of intriguingly tactile nature. My ideas owe much to the natural world and the work evokes images of landscape, seascape, rock strata and plant structure. Themes in nature emerge as coloured clays are inlaid rolled and marbled, and subjected to almost geological forces, to provide an infinite variety of pattern and colour. Pressed, wrapped and stretched clay slabs are manipulated to make sculptural vessels and wall panels which celebrate the plasticity of clay.”

Jo makes a range of ceramics includes vessels, sculptural forms and lighting for interior and garden settings. Wall panels and hangings often combine mixed media such as driftwood, glass and metal.

 

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Jo is available for lectures, demonstrations and workshops. She also runs occasional workshops in her studio and teaches residential courses at West Dean College, near Chichester. See workshops.

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Contact  email contact: enquiries@jjconnell.co.uk