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Alan Wallwork |
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Alan Wallwork was born in
Hertfordshire in 1931. However, having Alan’s pots at the Harlequin Gallery
is a bit like a homecoming, as he studied ceramics a few miles up the road at
Goldsmith's College in the 1950's. His tutors at Goldsmiths were Gordon
Baldwin and Kenneth Clark, who were very influential on him and many of his
contemporaries. After
leaving Goldsmiths he set up his first workshop and gallery in Forest Hill in
1957 before moving just around the corner from what is now the Harlequin
Gallery in 1960. In
those days Alan worked with a number of assistants and sub-let part of his
pottery to Bernard Rooke and Robert & Sheila
Fournier. Much of the work produced during that period was sold through
Heals, the department store in Alan
states that "enigmatic traces of earlier lives have always intrigued him
and influence his work - traces of people and their responses to the sun,
moon, the seasons, fertility - and traces of much earlier life forms that
have left their mark so abundantly in the landscape where he lives." Alan moved to Currently none of Alan’s work is available
but……………………………………. Several
pots by Alan will be for sale during the March 2012 exhibition, “The
Harlequin goes to
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