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ANDREW MARSHALL Earthenware Sunday 3rd to (The Private View of this exhibition takes place
on Sunday 3rd June when the gallery will open from
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Andrew
Marshall was
born in St. Ives, Cornwall in 1952, the son of Bill Marshall, foreman and
senior craftsman at the Leach Pottery. Although Andrew has had no formal
pottery training he grew up immersed in the craft, spending much of his
childhood watching his father and others at the Leach Pottery. Besides the
influence of his father, who he believes is responsible for his discipline
and subtlety of form, Andrew recalls two examples of earthenware made by
Shoji Hamada that have had a lasting effect on his work. However, the most
significant Oriental influence is the potter Rosanjin,
with Andrew saying that he "never fails to be interested in anything he
did". Although the
South West of England has an important earthenware tradition, Andrew believes
that the other major influence on his work was a book that he discovered in
the 1980's. This showed examples of high-fired earthenware produced by
country potters in Bavaria over a century ago, which differed in form and
variety of colour when compared to West Country pottery. In his own work
Andrew uses an earthenware clay to which he adds local St. Erth sand to give strength and for his glazes uses
natural materials that are mixed with St. Erth
clay, which forms the basis of all of his glazes. The Harlequin Gallery exhibition focuses on Andrew's earthenware output and examples of the work included are shown here. However, he also produces stoneware and porcelain alongside his father and helps him with the firing of his large two-chambered kiln, which doesn't happen as often as many of us would wish these days. |
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