Spirit Weed

Fran Fell | Ceramic Stoneware | 8.5 x 16 inches

I am a London based ceramic artist creating vessels decorated with contemporary designs.

I am not sure if it’s a good idea to make verbal statements about visual things but, if I had to, I’d say my work is spontaneous, energetic and playful.  I am always trying to keep an untrained spirit to what I do.  In working quickly and instinctively I hope to capture the emotion I feel when making.  For me a lively material quality must remain present in the finished pieces – the seams, the drips, finger marks and ‘mistakes’.

I try to vary my work by making one off sculptural pieces but I always seem to return to the vessel.  It’s a universal form which has been around for millennia  made to contain everything from food and flowers to medicines and ashes. Beyond being purely functional, vessels have a more imaginative role in human culture – their surfaces adorned with myths, stories and legends.  I love the way the visual narrative of the decoration unfolds as you move around the piece. There’s a time-based aspect to it – almost like watching a film.

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