Julian March – portfolio

Contact the artist

https://blewburyceramics.com
07917 529102
julian@blewburyceramics.com

The artist at work

Artist information

I’m Julian March – I make soulfood crockery. For me cooking and sharing food with my family & friends is an act of love. Eating soulfood together at the table is such an important ritual to me, and my ceramics is made with love, for soulfood together. Soulfood crockery.

Ever since I did ceramics for Art A-Level (way back in the day), I’ve loved ceramics and pottery. Having reached my ripe old age after a corporate career in news & media, I’ve come back to one of my creative passions.

This is my second year exhibiting at Artweeks.

I throw all kinds of pottery on the wheel – everything from plates to jugs, with bowls and even teapots in between.

This year I’ve been getting deeper into contrasting colours that pop, and I’ve also started slipcasting again. This is a technique I did a lot for my A-Level. I hand throw clay forms, then make a plaster mould out of them, and cast those shapes with slip (liquid clay). With slipcasting I can create forms which I couldn’t throw on the wheel, yet everything I do remains 100% hand made, with love.

I spent my career in digital media. Technology is almost impossible to escape. Making vessels for food out of clay is about as analogue, and as human, as it gets.

Pieces can form a set, yet they’re all different, and each have their foibles, just like us humans. Perfectly imperfect, or imperfectly perfect, whichever way you want to look at it.

Exhibition information

This year Julian will be exhibiting with two other amazing artists in the delightful village of Blewbury: Yvette Phillips’ exquisite embroideries and Freddie Paske’s charismatic paintings.

The Artweeks exhibition at Blewbury is a great start for a Grand Day Out in the country and is just across the road from Savages Garden centre which has a tea room where you can top up on tea and cake.

Our exhibition runs from Saturday 10th May to Sunday 18th May.

10am-5pm (Weekdays 10am-3pm)

I’ll be doing some throwing and slipcasting demos, so come and have a look!

Venue:

The Clubhouse

Boham’s Road

Blewbury

OX11 9HF