Debbie Page OCG, WOA – portfolio

Contact the artist

https://www.debbiepage.co.uk
07802 347943
debbie@debbiepage.co.uk

Exhibition information

Debbie’s current work applies the Textiles technique of botanical printing to the ceramic surface.

Binding foliage to and immersing the vessel in boiling water causes the leaves’ organics to transfer on to the ceramic surfaces, giving an epherial image.

Debbie has long been inspired by the Ceramics of Korea and Japan and continues to use the classic forms of the Moon Jar and the pail as the basis for the botanical printing technique and other decorative techniques she practises such as smoke firing and raku. 

Debbie handbuilds and uses white St Thomas clay, fired to 1000°C.

Artist information

Debbie can still recall the first time she touched clay at aged 13 in Art class at school. She counts herself fortunate she was able to stay in the pottery class for a whole academic year when she should have rotated through to lino printing & batik after the first term. 

It was another 20 or so years before she could once again experience working with clay.

Like many before her, Debbie worked hard at learning to throw on the wheel only to take 2 City and Guild’s courses which turned her from a thrower into a mould-making handbuilder. Such is the power of education.

She takes inspiration from the Korean Moon Jar – a strong, simple form. Debbie has worked with this form for 20 years – burnishing, smoke firing, glazing & raku firing. Her recent adventures in botanical printing are simply the latest stage is a career of exploration into the potential of clay.