MARTIN DICKSON. ABSTRACT FORM#2.

Stoneware, black/bronze,
Approx 24cm wide.

Martin Dickson:
I trained as a teacher in Exeter where I first developed an interest in pottery and ceramics and have spent most of my working life teaching part-time in schools and for Adult Education.
My particular interest is in hand-building with a particular emphasis on slab construction.
Early pieces aimed to explore form and surface within the constraints of vessel and container forms. This is a thread that has run continuously through my output in a number
of ways. I work with a variety of coarse stoneware bodies to produce sharply defined, often symmetrical vessels with scraped and stained surfaces. A series often develops through the systematic reworking of a particular form before that is, sometimes temporarily, exhausted.
Similar themes are sometimes explored through wheel thrown pieces in white stoneware bodies and in porcelain.
In parallel with these individual pieces I also make to order a range of hand-built planters, sundials and fountains for gardens and conservatories.
Work is in private collections in the UK, Europe and the US.