The exhibition includes work from the past year and some older pieces.
I have been developing a series of works inspired by our beautiful downland countryside. I would describe then as abstracts in ceramics rather than 3 dimensional representations of any actual landscape.
What’s so magical about pottery for me is that I can take a lump of clay, basically a lump from the earth, and turn it into something wonderful, useful, or both. My first attempts weren’t that successful - in fact the entire bottom fell off the first pot I ever made! I learned to build by hand first, and then to throw on the wheel. I still favour hand building - in this fast moving world slowing down and taking notice is important to me, I want to take time over what I make and I find the wheel a bit speedy (though you will find thrown pots amongst my work).
Hello! I’m Fi Cooper. I make pottery in my small studio in Oxfordshire. I always had a passion for making things and when I found ceramics I fell for it completely…so here I am.The nearest I’d come to ceramics in years were those I ate off, drank out of or dug up as sherds during my time as an archaeology student. One day I stood in a ceramics exhibition and thought about how I wanted to make things, and how making pottery had always been a desire of mine (I had done a bit at school, but that was a very long time ago).
I joined a local ceramics class - to be honest the minute I walked in for the look around I felt that this was where I needed to be, even for just a couple of hours a week, and after the first actual lesson I was properly hooked.