Gill Waller

Gillian mainly works using slab building techniques because she feels that they give her great control creating her forms. She likes forms that provide a flat surface area to decorate, and her decoration often reflects her years of teaching about twentieth century artists like Matisse and Picasso. She utilises their bright colours and bold lines. She also likes to create an optical illusion. Flat jugs can be used but their narrow depth makes them look two-dimensional. 

She grew up near Penzance, on the southwest Cornish peninsula, at a time when every Cornish village seemed to have a studio pottery. Nearby, Bernard Leach was working in St Ives and so were Troika – three artists who wanted to pursue their vision of pottery as art, without regard to function. She loved their work! It seemed to her that clay was a most exciting medium in which to work. She began studying ceramics as part of her A level course at Redruth School of Art. She went on to study Art at Leicester University and taught Art for twenty-six years at Hemel Hempstead and Basingstoke. Upon retiring she built a studio in her garden to concentrate on producing her own work.

Address:  “Pastures”, Dummer Road, Axford, Hampshire, RG25 2EB

Home Telephone Number:  01256 389 058

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