Rachel Foxwell Rachel makes process-based earthenware vessels using uniquely developed ceramic slips. Her work is a synthesis of expressive, intuitive surfaces and minimal forms. Each work is a painting that has form; limiting the complexity of the underlying structural forms in order for them to serve as a three-dimensional canvas.

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Abstract compositions evolve through her tactile and contemplative painterly processes on clay canvas. Complex layers of slips and engobes are meticulously applied to thin clay slabs. The slabs are later assembled to create simple, geometric forms, marrying form and surface so they become one indivisible unit.

Her current series of work juxtaposes the freedom of loose, textural mark making and the precise, controlling use of line. Working in series establishes a rhythm, and by making subtle variations to the surface decoration and the degrees of colour and texture integration the pieces have instinctively developed.

"My obsession is with surface and colour. I use colour and its inherent expressive energy to narrate the essence of a place and harness the abstract qualities of a landscape. I simplify what I see into graduations of hue to translate these experiences."

Selected Exhibitions

Leeds Craft Centre and Design Gallery

The Ruthin Centre for Applied Arts

Art Portfolio Gallery, Hampshire

The Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey

Art in Clay, Farnham Maltings

The Courtyard Gallery, Hampshire

Brighton Corn Exchange

New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham

Origin: The London Craft Fair

The City Gallery, Leicester

Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool

Gallery on the Square, St.Ives

The Alexander Gallery, Brighton

Clay Art Wales

CPA Oxford Ceramic Fair

Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

NB Gallery, Trowbridge

Black Swan Arts, Frome

Gallery 23, Lancaster