Home of Stoneware & Porcelain
As a potter, teacher and designer for thirty years, my ideas for pots are based on images from travel and the immediate environment of my garden.
The study of plants and observations of their growth and habit; the actual leaf or stem and more general observations of decay and change of the seasons give ideas for pots and sculpture.
My aim is to make pots and sculptures which have the same complete ‘rightness' that is found in plants. Each plant has a structure and habit unique to it and any deviation from that would be immediately apparent. Containers for plants which relate in form, colour and texture to plants and their natural environment are a mainstay of my stoneware production. Some pots are about the material itself. How clay reacts to pressure when soft or hard is a recent theme.
Other work is about process; of the effect of smoke and fire on the clay; of shine and mat; opaque or transparent; thick or thin. I have made boxes for as long as I can remember. I like their covetable forms and the element of surprise when some ‘gem' is found inside. The location of the lid and the quality of the fit is of continual intrigue to me. Pots are made in series sometimes evolving over months or years.
Poplar Grove Summer Shows
You and your friends are invited to
ALENTEJO BLUE
An exhibition of ceramics, collage and mixed media
New stoneware, garden sculpture and porcelain by Gordon Cooke
New collages by Ian Chapman
Mixed media work by invited artists
Priority booking for pottery courses
Including new walking and pottery courses in Portugal
Prizewinning garden Free admission
PREVIEW : THURSDAY 31 MAY 7-9pm
The exhibition continues EVERY DAY until 10 June 2 -5 each day
17 Poplar Grove, Sale, Cheshire. M33 3AX
0161 969 9816
gordoncooke.ceramics@virgin.net or gordoncooke.ceramics@gmail.com
Image: Stoneware wall piece by Gordon Cooke 2012
Collage detail by Ian Chapman 2012
National Garden Scheme
CHARITY GARDEN OPENINGS
19 & 20 May 2-5 each day
£3.50 Children free
Home made Teas and Plants for sale
Please observe parking restrictions if attending on weekday afternoons
There is unrestricted parking in Clifton Rd (extension of Poplar Grove)
