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Animal Art Fair Riverside Walkway South Bank 26th to 29th September 2013
Sarah Walton is a potter who lives and works in Alciston, near Lewes, East Sussex, England.
She has run a pottery there since 1975 using a large oil-fired saltglaze kiln.
She studied Fine Art at Chelsea from 1960-64 and Studio Pottery at Harrow from 1971-73.
Sarah acknowledges a debt to mediaeval pots, the arts of Mesopotamia and South-East Asia, to Neolithic Art, to Western Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature, poetry, wit, philosophy and religion, and to innumerable people through the years, especially Weislaw Pilawski and Irene Milburn.
Landscape is a theme in her work. She has walked, drawn and painted it since childhood and this lies behind her evolution of birdbaths which she has made since 1984. Her ceramics are represented in 13 museums in the UK and she has won 5 awards. Her work can be bought at Contemporary Applied Arts and Contemporary Ceramics in London, The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh and The Leach Pottery, St Ives.
Her studio gallery is open most weekdays, 11am - 5pm. If you are coming a long way and/or wish to call on a weekend please telephone first on 01323 811517.
Biography
Born 1945
Grew up and was educated in London
1960-64
Chelsea Art School (Painting)
1966-71
Middlesex Hospital, London (SRN)
1971-73
Harrow Art School (Harrow Diploma in Studio Pottery)
Apprenticeships with David Leach and Zelda Mowat
In 1975
Set up her own studio at Alciston, Sussex where she works as a potter, using a saltglaze kiln.
Awards:
1975
Crafts Council Grant to establish a workshop
1978
South East Arts Bursary Award
1990
John Ruskin Craft Bursary
1993
South East Arts Major Award
1998
South East Arts Award
Work in Public Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Crafts Council, London
Contemporary Arts Society, London
South East Arts Collection, Hove Museum, Sussex
Castle Museum, Nottingham
Crafts Centre, Northern Arts, Cleveland
Norwich Museum, Norfolk
City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Newport Museum, Gwent, Wales
Arts Centre, University of South Wales, Aberystwyth
Paisley Museum, Scotland
Glasgow Museum, Scotland
Allen Gallery, Alton, Hampshire
Associations
Crafts Council Index, London
Contemporary Applied Arts, London (ex Committee Members)
Craftsmen Potters Association of Great Britain
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.
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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