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CATHERINE PHELPS

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

£265.00

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
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CATHERINE PHELPS

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

£265.00

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Product Details

Size: 28 x 23 x 2.5cm (11 x 9.1 x 1 inches)

A one-off hand made piece. Press-moulded in terracotta, sgraffito decoration in 'potters honey' glaze. Signed on reverse.

Food safe, wash by hand with hot soapy water and dry thoroughly.

Based on the Aesop fable: The Dog in the Manger

 

STORY:

British artist and designer Catherine Phelps splits her time between two homes and studios, one nestled in a lush garden in Asturias, Spain and the other in historic Salisbury.

Living between two countries is nothing new for Catherine. Originally living in London and Madrid, Catherine was (and still is) a graphic designer for the music industry, creating album covers, posters and graphics using her own distinctive illustrations.

Following a love of pottery and a course on wheel-throwing, Catherine went on to set up a ceramics studio in Asturias with six other ceramicists where they share a kiln and knowledge of clay and glazes.

It is here that Catherine works on these pieces inspired by her beautiful garden, folktales and fables. After press-moulding and finishing the plates, Catherine then allows them to dry to a 'leather hard' consistency which she then hand paints with a dark engobe glaze. 

To refine the detail she scratches into each piece with a technique called sgraffito, a perfect technique for this graphic artist that also has a love for the traditional. The pieces are then biscuit fired followed by the final application of the 'potter's honey' glaze which is applied by dipping the whole piece in glaze and it is fired once again.

 

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