When was geoffrey swindell born

Within this set the biological motif is undermined by a curious unfamiliarity and sense of exoticism — the decorative elements rooted in a fantasy that bridges abstraction with the familiar organic patterns, and finds an particular intensity in the otherworldly imagination and conveyed sense of movement. Hieronymus was established as an online gallery in to showcase the collection of the Richard and Alita Rogers Family Foundation.

Shopping cart. Geoffrey Swindell. Display 3 6 9 per page. My first experience as an artist was as a painter learning to paint classic illustrative images and then moving on to canvases that were purely abstract expressions of emotion through colour and texture. When I became a potter I carried this involvement with surface qualities through to my ceramics creating objects that are not just simply coated in glaze but have an essential and inseparable relationship of form and surface.

Some pieces are textured by tapping the surface with a multi-pointed wire brush, ball ended tools and various sticks. The fine characterless texture and whiteness of Porcelain gives a good bright ground to enhance the colour rather like a pure white canvas. I use an Air brush to spray the surface of the forms with colours allowing me to build up overlapping layers of slip, glaze and oxides.

Geoffrey Swindell was born in Stoke-on-Trent in He left school at 15 in and went to Art College to get enough experience to apply to become an apprentice face painter of Doulton figurines. After studying painting, a summer job at the pottery at Alton Towers inspired Geoffrey to become a potter. Examples are held in over forty museums and public collections throughout the world including the Victoria and Albert in London and the National Museum of Wales.

Geoffrey currently lives and works in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, and is continuing to work in his studio. Please ask for details.. This website uses cookies This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy. Please sign-up to the gallery's confidential mailing list to receive engaging news of new acquisitions, and forthcoming exhibitions and events in the gallery. We will process the personal data you have supplied to communicate with you in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

You can unsubscribe or change your preferences at any time by clicking the link in our emails. Geoffrey Swindell. Geoffrey Swindell British, b. Works Overview Exhibitions Video. View Detail Page Geoffrey Swindell. Creating objects that are not just simply coated in glaze, but have an essential and inseparable relationship of form and surface.

For over fifty years I have been compelled to make these curious forms. Usually they are vases but sometimes they don't have a name. Their creation has given me joy, despair, friends, money and backache.

My work has been included in many international exhibitions and publications with Solo shows in London and New York. Examples are held in over forty-five museums and public collections throughout the world including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. I make all the parts of the pieces on the potters wheel creating a thick section to be trimmed and thinned with sharp steel tools once leather hard.

Some pieces are textured by tapping the surface with a multi-pointed wire brush, ball ended tools and various sticks. The fine characterless texture and whiteness of the porcelain gives a good bright ground to enhance the colour rather like a pure white canvas.