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View Image Gallery Simon Fell(Full member)

Tel: +44 (0)7957 658857   Email:   Web: www.simonfell.co.uk  

Artist's Statement

I work in the area that overlaps between ceramics and sculpure. I am fascinated by the medium and see it as expressive, responsive and demanding of skill and practice. I try to make work that interests me and expands my ideas.

I work instinctively and work ideas out by sketching, adjusting the work as I build it to take account of technical problems. Solving those problems is an intrinsic part of the medium and one of the reasons I like working in clay.

I think clay is a very human medium, it records what you do with your hands, it is intensely satisfying, I assume this must be because it allows you a lot of control, something most of us crave. The firing and glazing process is exactly the opposite, at that point you have very little control beyond hoping that the results you have had before may repeat themselves if you are lucky.

Current Work

Earthenware and stoneware sculpture and assemblages, some vessels and some figures.

Current work availability:
Direct from the artist
Redlees studio, Isleworth
See my website.

Other information:
Lectures: My ceramic work(+slides or digital images)
Workshops: Slab building with clay (age 8+) and press moulds & slip casting(adults)
Creativity: Find it, play with it, show it.(teens+)
Writing on ceramics:Reviews, profiles, features as seen in London Potters association newsletter.


Technical Information

I build using slab building techniques and press moulding for basic forms which I then combine.
Earthenware fired to 1120¼C. Stoneware fired to 1250¼C. Electric kiln.

History

My earliest ambition was to become an artist.

I first came across ceramics at about the age of ten in 1965.

Ceramics were a significant part of my foundation course at Maidstone college of art in 1972. At college (Leeds Polytechnic) in 1973 I gravitated towards conceptual art via performance art, land art and installations.

Since 1975 I have done a lot of different art related jobs, from silk screen printing to community arts to web design. I now spend as much time as I can at the studio, where my work is evolving all the time. My interest in other creative outlets continues in the form of web design, graphic design and teaching.

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Ceramics by Simon Fell at Studiopottery.co.uk - home

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Ceramics by Simon Fell at Studiopottery.co.uk - <b> Karparc</b><br> Earthenware (each about 6cm x 3cm x 2.5cm) <br>A work comprising many pieces . The work is growing as buyers get a substantial discount if they make a car and contribute it to the work.<br>Created in 2008. Ceramics by Simon Fell at Studiopottery.co.uk - <b>Designer Cactus</b><br> Stoneware h50cm<br> Plants grow through cell division. Cells replicate and divide, artistic ideas do something similar but they seem to propagate through association rather than duplication.
Ceramics by Simon Fell at Studiopottery.co.uk - <b>Tank Family</b><br> Stoneware, h15cm<br> The armour plated family are so cute with their rubber duck looks. Cuteness is the quality I most dislike in ‘craft’ work but it is also hard to resist using it. Ceramics by Simon Fell at Studiopottery.co.uk - <b>Treasure chest</b><br> Glazed stoneware, h 30cm<br> Treasure chests appear in pirate stories where they symbolise a dream of enormous wealth and good luck not unlike winning the lottery.
Ceramics by Simon Fell at Studiopottery.co.uk - <b>War of the Worlds</b><br> Earthenware, bamboo, chain, light bulbs & wiring, h80cm.<br> A melodramatic tableau loosely based on H.G.Wells\_ \_War of the Worlds\_.<br> Created in 2007. Ceramics by Simon Fell at Studiopottery.co.uk - <b>Potgun</b><br> Earthenware, w 30cm<br> No person or animal was hurt in the making of this sculpture. The clay got a thorough beating however, luckily it took it like a man.

Contact Details

Studio Address: Studio 13, Redlees Studios, Redlees Park, Worton Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, UK, TW7 6DW.
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Telephone: +44 (0)7957 658857
Email:
Web-site: www.simonfell.co.uk

Availability: By appointment, or visit one of the open studio events.

Note: See Simon's website for some great images, information and a small flash movie.

Last Updated: 2011-06-14

Work styles:

Stoneware
Sculptural
Handbuilt
Earthenware
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