Louise has a small well stocked showroom at her studio and welcomes visitors by appointment please.
Louise darby ceramics.
Louise specialises in finely thrown stoneware and porcelain.
Louise darby ceramics and photography opens her studio and garden for the first of her two 2018 exhibitions.
Alongside her ceramics she sells her photographs as framed pictures and greetings cards.
She also takes informal lifestyle family portrait commissions and photographs work for fellow artists.
Over the last 30 years she has developed a range of work perfecting her own technique of carving animated images of animals including cats frogs and hares freehand on to the leather hard clay of plates and vases.
Louise darby artist and potter.
Held over the first weekend of june and last of november these four day exhibitions have gained a reputation for the exciting variety and high standard of craftsmanship in the work shown and its presentation at this welcoming venue.
Louise has made the techniques of incising and carving very much her own.
With five returning exhibitors and introducing artist illustrator carolyn carter and stained glass artist and printmaker frans wesselman new to clay barn.
Stylised images of animals and plants are cut freehand into the leather hard clay and after biscuit firing are inlaid with glazes by pouring dipping scraping and sponging before the glaze firing in a 10cu ft ceramic fibre gas kiln to 1280ºc.
Due to the coronavirus situation my clay barn exhibitions are cancelled.
Photography has always been part of louise s creative process.
In 1983 she set up her own studio specialising in finely thrown stoneware and porcelain ceramics making the techniques of incising and carving very much her own.
Though she specialised in ceramics photography continued to play an important inspirational role and she now enjoys exhibiting her photographs in their own right alongside her ceramics.
Louise holds biannual mixed media group exhibitions at her workshop clay barn near stratford upon avon.
Louise darby has been a professional potter since graduating from loughborough college of art and design in 1978.
Photographs by louise darby.
Together showing eight disciplines.
The artists attend during the.
Louise relishes the freedom to just point and press there is something so satisfying about capturing a moment framing an.
