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Bayley, Ros
Ceramics

I am a ceramic artist working from my studio in Newlyn. My work is to do with eating and drinking and I like the fact that these things can be used. I am interested in the ceremony of sharing which connects my ideas to the Japanese tea ceremony.

In my work, ideas rather than food or drink become the shared enjoyment of the event. I would like the viewer to be drawn in by all of their senses and I encourage viewers to participate in the work by picking up and holding the pieces.

I am primarily drawn to throwing and the skills it requires, the visualisation of the work comes first and during the process of throwing my ideas are realised intuitively. Throwing allows me to work quickly with the material, it becomes like a well rehearsed gesture. There is a pleasure in the satisfaction of repeating the same form over. I interrupt this desire for the perfection of conformity by intuitively changing one of the pots in the group. This may become part of a more complex system of ordering when the pots are seen together.

As well as making pots I am an experienced Primary teacher and I work in schools doing projects with clay.