Margaret Gardiner
Bishop's Stortford
Essex
| Web: | www.maggygardiner.com |
| email: | info@maggygardiner.com |
| Tel: | 01279 654025 |
Current Work
My work is mainly thrown, porcelain and stoneware, for domestic use and visual enjoyment. I love textures: lace, peacock feathers, shells and shiny things and adore the process of evolving these into my ceramics.
I bisque to 1000C, then spray & trail slips onto the pots. I have recently evolved a particular form of vapour-glazing using a cocktail of salts that produces a lustrous iridescence. The chance nature of this method adds a welcome element of unpredictability to finely thrown pots.
Exhibitions and Fairs
I exhibit in shows and galleries such as
- Art in Clay, Hatfield
- Earth & Fire, Rufford
- Ceramics in the City, London
- Bircham Gallery, Holt
- Frivoli, London
- Grapevine, Norwich
- New Ashgate, Farnham
Career Background
| 1974-1976 | Harrow Studio Pottery Course. Focused on salt-firing. |
| 1976-1978 | Dartington Pottery Training Workshop/Peter Starkey Pots sold in Casson Gallery, Amalgam, Atmosphere, Inate Harmony, Barclaycraft & Liberties in London & Maceys in New York. |
| 1982 onwards | Set up workshop in Bishop's Stortford with 50 cu ft salt kiln & started teaching. Family commitments curtailed full time involvement until 2001. Now selling regularly at major ceramic shows & galleries. |
Margaret Gardiner is a CPA Professional member and a Selected member of Anglian Potters