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Sarah Walton Saltglaze Pottery

Sarah Walton Saltglaze Pottery
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Polegate
East Sussex
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Description
The forms of these birdbaths are prompted by landscape, especially that of the South Downs and the Lake District. I've tried to recreate on a small scale what I've seen on a larger one there. As important has been the influence of Romanesque and Neolithic art. 

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My father was a musician at Glyndebourne and so I spent a lot of my early childhood around the South Downs enjoying their sensuous hollows and profiles.Then one Easter I was introduced to the Lake District with it's sharp cold air and thin topsoil. Tarns lay circled amongst hills.

These could dance in sunlight or lie in deep stillness.The often weather-beaten qualities of rural buildings such as barns, stone-walling and Saxon churches have further given me a language and influenced the way I choose to use materials.

It is often in a dormant Winter garden that these pieces look their best.  Their fabric is Saltglazed ceramic which makes them quite un-porous. Should the water in them freeze, their upper forms are such it has room to expand outwards and upwards. 

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Image courtesy of Jacqui Hurst

When I began making the birdbaths in 1986 I had a clear intention to make forms that were more sensuous than I'd dared attempt before.
 
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Image courtesy of Jacqui Hurst

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When onlookers say they want to touch them I realise I've communicated my intention. I was also sure I wanted them to be pieces about stillness and tenderness, and that I'd use austerity to serve those aims. Because of this I recommend them in some instances, as memorial pieces, when a bronze plaque with name and dates may be inlaid into the oak of the base. In even fewer cases the birdbath itself, because it is a hollow form, may with very slight modification become a cremation urn.

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