PATRICIA LOW CERAMICS
“The Fine Art Society has been exhibiting Patricia Low's Pots since 1992 when Peyton Skipwith gave her first show here with Edward Bawden. However, collectors of her work have had to be patient.
Unfashionably unhurried, she has made all her technical advances by painstaking
experimentation to achieve in her work what David Inshaw has described as quiddity-
My work is shown at the Fine Art Society www.faslondon.com
or can be seen by appointment through low1000@btinternet.com
I trained as a painter at Swindon and Chelsea Art Schools from 1960-
I begin by making drawings and then large watercolour studies of my subject on paper. To achieve the intensity and luminosity of water colour in ceramic, I use raw oxides which have a painterly quality that I can layer and scumble. The image is in monochrome until glazed and fired.
My subjects come from my surroundings on the Hampshire/Dorset border where I daily see and draw owls, foxes, hares, etc. The Chalk Downs and burial mounds of the Beaker people are the connective tissue of my working day. Things which make my heart sing are many, among them: the Medieval Stone Mason, white Tudor plaster relief, armorial carvings, Etruscan pots, George Stubbs, cave paintings, Josiah Wedgwood and Stoke on Trent; objects made for and belonging in architecture.