Ian Godfrey Ceramics

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Ian godfrey ceramics.

See more ideas about godfrey ceramics pottery. Aug 13 2019 explore n koon s board ian godfrey on pinterest. Sitting on the floor at oxford ceramics gallery as we made an inventory of the works that had come in from the estate of ian godfrey for the show enchanted landscapes was a moment like no other for me. The inaugural maak contemporary ceramics online auction offers a wide selection of british and international studio pottery and ceramic art.

Ian godfrey british 1942 1992 a large teapot with village scene circa 1970. Ian godfrey 1942 1992 was a highly imaginative and virtuoso potter who played a leading role in the sculptural shifts in british ceramics in the 1960s and 70s. Ian godfrey potter born ely 1942 died london 13 august 1992. See more ideas about ceramics godfrey contemporary ceramics.

Ian godfrey 1942 1992 was one of the most remarkable british potters of the last fifty years and as lucie rie proudly remarked of her old pupil he was inimitable. May 26 2020 the work of the british potter ian godfrey 1942 1992. Ian godfrey was born in ely in 1942. There he began to make pottery and trained in the department run by dick kendall with teachers who included lucie rie hans coper and ian auld.

He went to school in london and later attended camberwell art school to study painting in 1957. Surrounded by a menagerie of clay animals and teapots ranging in size from the pointlessly sma. Godfrey studied first painting then ceramics at camberwell art school london from 1957 where his teachers include hans coper lucie rie and ian auld. He trained at the innovative camberwell college of arts where godfrey developed as a hand builder subsequently combining this with throwing to create highly original pots.

He developed a language which sought to convey in thrown and carved bowls dishes vases cups and other forms. At camberwell school of art in london in the late 1950s he had originally studied painting but later moved to the ceramics.