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Jude Jelfs
Ceramicist

Foundation Course
Somerset College of Art & Design

Dip.AD Fine Art (Sculpture & Painting)

Gloucester College of Art & Design (working mainly in bronze)

1973 - Set up  Cotswolds studio with John Jelfs (Professional Member of The Craft Potters Association)

My current pots are flat, almost 2-dimensional,slab-built earthenware or porcelain vessels. The shapes are cut from flat sheets of clay then  curved and assembled as in dressmaking. They are decorated with layers of vitreous (glass-forming) slips, burnished, then sgraffito lines are drawn through one layer to expose another. They are biscuit fired one or more times, and are glazed inside.

My starting point is life drawing.I am interested in how the human form can be represented and  abstracted, can be a vessel in every sense; how one (living) form can become another distinct kind of form.

I have returned to bronze as a working material after 30 years, and have  been awarded Arts Council  funding to develop my ideas.

Recent Exhibitions

Royal West of England Academy,Bristol
The Stour Gallery, Shipston on Stour
Alpha House gallery, Sherbourne
Contemporary Ceramics, London
Candover Gallery, Arlesford
Derek Topp Gallery, Matlock
Once in a Blue moon Gallery, Massachusetts,USA
Patchings Arts Centre, Nottingham
Artist in Residence,
Aberystwyth International Festival of Ceramics 2005

2006
Ceramic Art London,Royal College of Art
Terra Viva Gallery, France
Art in Clay, Hatfield House
Ropewalk Gallery, Barton-on Humber

More work available

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