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Elaine Sheppard Bolt

Objects can tell stories

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Ceramics by Elaine Sheppard Bolt

Ceramic vessels, wall pieces and sculpture in porcelain, stoneware and mixed media by Elaine Sheppard Bolt.
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Small Sculpture by Elaine Sheppard Bolt

Elaine Bolt Ceramics - porcelain twig vessels (photography by Catherine Benson)

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Handbuilding with Porcelain - This September I’ll

Handbuilding with Porcelain - This September I’ll be running my weekly small-group hand-building class, working with porcelain and stoneware.
Fridays 10.00am – 12.30pm starting 4th Sept at my studio in Sussex.

Techniques will include:
- making vessels in porcelain paperclay
- making botanical influenced pieces in porcelain
- working with mixed media
- decorating and colouring clay
Or pursue your own ideas with full support and guidance from me

If you’d like to try handbuilding with porcelain or would like to develop your skills in ceramics have a look at my website (link in bio)
#handbuiltporcelain #elainesheppardbolt #porcelain #ceramicsworkshop #ditchlingcommon
@craftpotters @visitditchling @london.potters @themakersdirectory
📷first image @yeshen.uk

Garden hieroglyphs Work in progress . . . #colo

Garden hieroglyphs
Work in progress
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#colouredporcelain #ceramicart #wallart #elainesheppardbolt

Coloured porcelain pieces fresh out of the kiln. W

Coloured porcelain pieces fresh out of the kiln. Waiting to be assembled and framed.
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#porcelain #ceramicart #ceramicsandwire #assemblage #elainesheppardbolt

Recently I’ve been using more wire pieces and wire

Recently I’ve been using more wire pieces and wire ‘handles’ in my work and one inspiration behind it has been thinking about the use of wire in gardens. It’s often used a material for intervention in nature, such as plant supports, or as a barrier or to control or change the shape of how things grow. So I wanted to include wire alongside my other garden-inspired ceramics. The wire I’ve used in my compositions is sometimes also there to define a negative space within a group, to suggest a space where nature and people may meet.
I’ll be showing my sculptural pieces and wall pieces next in Ditchling for @artwavefestival with @pond_house_studio 5-6 Sept
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#wire #ceramics #ceramicart #thegarden #elainesheppardbolt

Making today - using oxide stained porcelain to ma

Making today - using oxide stained porcelain to make fern leaves using a real one as a stencil, and rolling branches for trees.
Also preserving leaves from my Acer tree chewed almost completely by roaming dear. It’s the give and take I guess, but I was upset. The lesson is to work with what works. The brambles and bracken are doing well.
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#ceramics #porcelain #ferns #trees

This group of small sculptural pieces form a colle

This group of small sculptural pieces form a collection and sit on a ceramic plinth. They’re part of a series that, in my head, explores elements of the natural world and the human-made world, and how they interact with each other. They sit in a line, as if catalogued, but also can be moved around and form different connections. This is how I see the world.

This group along with several others are part of the beautifully curated Display and Function exhibition @gallery57_contemporaryart in Arundel - on until the 18th July.

#elainesheppardbolt #sculpturalceramics

Thank you to everyone who came to the open studio

Thank you to everyone who came to the open studio at the weekend

It was so good to see so many friendly faces and to greet so many new ones

We had an amazing time.
Thank you to all the lovely guest artists and makers showing in the studio and barn including @patrickofsussex @jowatterspawlowskiartist @alistringell @marija_bichan @monjoligoods @pennysandersonart @theoldcottageframing @katebrownecraniosacral

And thank you to @sussexcraftweek and @therosamag for creating a week of amazing craft across the region.
Additional thanks to @themakersdirectory for the brilliant Studio Safari during the week
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#elainesheppardbolt #ceramicart

A little view of work by me and by @alistringell o

A little view of work by me and by @alistringell on show this weekend for open studios in @sussexcraftweek see link in bio for info

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