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Harlequin
Gallery
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Gordon Crosby - sculptural stoneware &
vessels
Laura Gethen Smith - paintings
Joseph Lynch - salt-glazed stoneware
Sunday 1st to Sunday 22nd July 2001
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Gordon Crosby
vessel with layered sides - No.8 - 27cm. diameter (11in.) - £250
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Gordon Crosby
William Newland, who was
in charge of the ceramic department, first introduced Gordon Crosby to
pottery at the Institute of Education in London in the 1950's. Gordon followed this
up by continuing his pottery education at the Central School of Art, which he
attended two evenings a week for three years. There he was taught by Ruth
Duckworth and Dan Arbeid, who have been a great influence on Gordon's work.
Throughout this period and for much of his working life Gordon taught art at Wimbledon College, so pottery has had to take a
back seat. However, since taking early retirement Gordon has concentrated on
his pottery resulting in him exhibiting at the Galerie Besson and now at the
Harlequin Gallery.
Besides his early teachers, Gordon admits to being influenced by the American
potters Peter Voulkos and Paul Soldner. Recently when I mentioned to one of
my American clients that the piece of Gordon's work she was looking at was “a
bit like Voulkos" she replied "Yes, but better." Praise
indeed.
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Study for "Dresden II" - acrylic & chalk on
paper by Laura Gethen Smith
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exhibition)
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Laura Gethen Smith
Laura, who lives in Kent, trained at Croydon College of
Art, the City & Guilds of London Art School and at St. Martin's School of Art. She has taken part in a number
of group and solo exhibitions in London, the North East of England and Scotland and her work is in several
private and public collections, including the Nuffield Institute.
Laura, who produces the most exciting work that I have come across in ages,
has come up with a selection of new paintings especially for this exhibition.
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Joseph Lynch salt-glazed "chimney pot" vase - No. 48 - 40.5cm. high
(16in.) - Sold
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Joseph Lynch
Joseph is the most
recently qualified of the three artists exhibiting, having graduated from the
University of Westminster (Harrow) in the summer of 1999 with an Upper
Second Class Honours degree in Ceramics.
Since then Joseph has established a studio with an associate, which included
the building of an outdoor gas-fired salt kiln in the West Country. He also
teaches pottery part-time at Richmond Adult & Community College, which
includes running a special salt-glazing course.
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