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No.34 – Large Pale Grey Grooved Oval.
Height: 34.5cm (13.6”)
Width: 29.2cm (11.5”)
Price: £300
Most of you will be aware that after the
opening of the gallery’s last exhibition of Alan Wallwork’s pots in November
2004, the man went off to S. W. France to start his new life in the sun –
escaping as he thought the cold winters of Dorset. It was always hoped that
Alan would eventually tire of basking in the sun with a wine glass in his
hand and get around to building a kiln and making more pots with “a French
twist”. This exhibition fulfils the hopes that I had even if Alan’s new home
is a little too high up in the foothills of the Pyrenees for it to give him
the never ending sunshine that he craved. My attempts to cheer him up with
telephone calls from London telling him of dustings of snow were inevitably
met with tales of 5 or 6 foot of the stuff outside his front door. However,
despite this and his fear of burning down his house when firing his kiln new
pots have been produced. These are instantly recognisable as being work of
the master yet with an added zing – the “je ne sais quoi” that we joked
about when he first went there. Hope you enjoy the result.
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