SARA MOORHOUSE
LAND OF PLENTY
New paintings by Ruth Piper
and ceramics by Sara Moorhouse & Maria Wojdat
June - August 2016
Lane House Arts Gallery, Bath
Sara Moorhouse’s work explores the ways in which spaces within landscape appear altered depending on the ever-changing colours of season, weather, time and farming. The bowls act as a canvas for paintings that distil specific landscape scenes, perceptibly altering the size, depth and shape of the form by the applied colour.
The pieces are handthrown and turned, the movement of the wheel often reflected in the slight asymmetry of the form. The lines are applied by returning the bisque fired bowl to the wheel and painted with ceramic colour by hand. A matt glaze is then applied to stabilise and enhance the coloured surface.
The forms can be made to seem wider or narrower, deeper or shallower, heavier or lighter, or they may appear to undulate, bend, move or hover by the juxtaposition of finer lines. The viewing of both inner and outer surfaces together enables her to exploit colour connections and visual play from one side to another, emphasising or flattening the dimensionality of the form.
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