Open for Marches Makers, and more

Welcome to 2018 at Leg of Mutton! This year, we’ll be open for just one event, and what a superb event it promises to be: the brand-new Marches Makers Festival, featuring work by 70 makers in 11 locations in Kington. We’ll present the fruits of our ceramics labour over the past 18 months. Monuments to fallen leaves, celestial dreamboats and other delights for the eye and soul await.

Opening hours:
5, 6 and 7 May 2018
10 AM–4 PM

Preview evening:
Fri 4 May, 6–8 PM

Andrew Eastwood, Honesty Vase

Shannon Donovan, Hazel Sarcophagus

If you can’t make it to LoM during Marches Makers, there will be two more chances to see our work this year. I’ll be exhibiting at Ceramic Wales in Wrexham from 13-15 July. Then, for h.Art, Andrew is participating in a group exhibition at the Old Police Station in Kington, 8-16 September. As for me, I’m honoured to be one of the winners of the h.Art Old Mayor’s Parlour Prize and will be exhibiting there, along with two other artists, during September.

Finally, we’ll send a separate message regarding the General Data Protection Regulations and how these affect your subscription to news about Leg of Mutton. In the meantime, please don’t ever hesitate to get in touch with us. Looking forward to seeing you all!

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Week 2 of Fire + Earth

Fire + Earth continues for one more week at Aardvark Books. Sales have been healthy, but there’s still much wonderful work on display to admire. We hope the following photos will entice you.

Verity Howard

Ken Eastman

Andrew Eastwo

Gill Tennant-Eyles (left) and Hajeong Lee (right)

Garry Jones

Phil Rogers

Jonathan Phillips

Bev Milward

Gill Tennant-Eyles

Bev Milward

Tony Hall

Nancy Frost

Verity Howard

Bas Titford (back), Maggie Kingston (front)

Stephen Cox RA

Rob Fountain (front), Corinna Kenyon-Wade (back)

Andrew Crouch (plinth), Shannon Donovan (wall)

Andrew Eastwood

Shannon Donovan (with bird by Garry Jones)

Fire + Earth: Stephen Cox RA

For the final installment of an image a day from Fire + Earth, we offer you some majestic majolica by Royal Academician Stephen Cox. Stephen’s explorations in the medium came about owing to his interest in the three treatises of Cipriano Piccolpasso on renaissance lead glaze pottery. These works have never been exhibited before, and we’re exceptionally honoured to present them.

Fire + Earth will be on view at Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan SY7 0DH, from 8-23 April.

Detail from ‘Leda and the Swan’, by Stephen Cox RA

Fire + Earth: Tony Hall

At Castle Hill Arts, Tony Hall produces traditional ceramic ware and has begun to explore portraiture in clay. He also throws really big terracotta pots! We’re hoping to feature the latter at Fire + Earth in addition to some of Tony’s tabletop-sized offerings.

Fire + Earth: Maggie Kingston

Fire + Earth will open to the public on Saturday 8 April, and we’re pleased that Maggie Kingston will be taking part. The glazes on Maggie’s organic sculptures derive from the ash of plants that grow on her own land.

Pollards, by Maggie Kingston

Fire + Earth: Shannon Donovan

Aw shucks, it’s time to talk about me. I’m pleased to be exhibiting in as well as helping to organise and curate Fire + Earth. I’ll be presenting a selection of my wall-hanging sculptures that evoke the forest floor and the floating world of water lilies.

Winter Rose, by Shannon Donovan

Fire + Earth: Phil Rogers

Phil Rogers produces his traditional yet unique ware at his long-established pottery in mid-Wales. Come experience work by a master ceramicist at Fire + Earth.

Fire + Earth: Gill Tennant-Eyles

Gill Tennant-Eyles makes fluid, gestural, sculptural vessels that capture the textures, colours and sweeping winds of the seaside. Come see her work at Fire + Earth.

Fire + Earth: Garry Jones

Fire + Earth exhibitor Garry Jones uses anthropomorphised animals in much of his sculpture, infusing them with both humour and intensity. The work in the image below has a more totem-like feel.

Sculpture by Garry Jones

 

Fire + Earth: Verity Howard

Fire + Earth will feature work by Verity Howard, who brings a fresh fusion of ideas and technique to the field of ceramics. Combining traditional hand-building with surface printing and drawing, Verity’s pared-down work expresses the essentials of her subject matter, as in the image below.

‘A Ley Landscape’ by Verity Howard – inspired by Alfred Watkins