Visual Arts Forum - Artists

Carey Moon - Ceramics/Paintings

For my ceramic work I use porcelain and porcelain coloured slips. Sometimes the dishes are thrown on the wheel, and sometimes the clay is rolled out and draped over, or into a plaster mould to achieve the asymmetrical shape. The texture of the cloth that the clay is rolled out on helps with the decoration - perhaps to emulate the scaliness of the fish, a favourite motif. Current paintings and drawings are inspired by working outside in the landscape. I also do paintings based on still life. I like to work in a way that reflects the aims of painters like Matisse and Dufy, who enjoyed arranging colours on a flat surface. I am not concerned particularly with imitating reality - the picture has to work on its own terms. I like paintings that have a strong sense of place or atmosphere, or something mysterious about them.

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I studied Fine Art at Leeds and at Goldsmiths College where I qualified as an art teacher. I have taught art in schools and colleges part-time, as well as English as a Second Language. Now I teach part-time and also work at the Gallery Upstairs, Torquil, Henley-in-Arden.

 

Contact Details

	01926-496971
	carey.moon@virgin.net
	careymoon.com