Cornwall Ceramics and Glass Group...Samme Charlesworth

My work is developing gradually without being forced. I work with Cornish stoneware clay using hand building and wheel thrown techniques. I prefer a stoneware ceramic body decorated with a simple personal palette of handmade glazes of blue, white and black. My work is finished off with a high gloss surface with mark making taking the eye around the piece. The form is functional, organic, and abstract, employing heightened symmetry and tension.

I experiment with the language of Abstract Expressionism as I enjoy lines of industrial and mechanical design. Individual pieces can be added-to and re-assembled to make a collection. I enjoy amassing and assembling work pieces, uncommon pieces with a lively, instinctive and robust substance.