Colin Saunders
I’d like my pieces to remind people of all the curves we’ve grown up with-all the shop door handles we’ve held, all the wash basins we’ve looked down into, and all those anodised aluminium jugs we’ve had in front of us on school dinner tables. Yet to aim for nostalgia in a Peter Blake fashion would be wrong as I don’t possess that type of wit. I can only make forms which look right and interest me in a purely formal way. I enjoy modelling in clay and being able to record and reproduce my efforts through the technique of mould making. Despite designing specifically for the technique, I find that scarcely a pot emerges from my moulds that doesn’t have to be altered in some way. For a long time I considered this a failing on my part, but now accept it. In contrast to the mould-made ceramics the thrown and turned work encourages varied pot section and a corresponding different scale of weight. If people see in this work echoes of English 18th century cream-ware I take it as a great compliment.
Born 1938 Northampton
Education
1960-1961 N. Staffs College of Technology
1958-1961 Central School of Art
Professional experience
1980 Set up studio inSuffolk
1966-1980 Taught at Morley College, London Institute and Camberwell School of Art
1961-1966 Taught at Stoke on Trent Colelge of Art
Collections
British Council
Crafts Council