Decorative and functional wheel-thrown vessels, with quiet harmony of form and colour
Lucy Burley sculpts with white earthenware clay and has developed her own semi-matte glaze with an eggshell texture. Her formulation incorporates a fine balance of oxides and stains to create a beautiful palette of colours in the firing process. The resulting vessels are smooth and tactile with a tonal depth. She makes functional and decorative vessels, including vases, bowls and jugs. A single vessel offers a subtle statement whilst a collection allows a still life composition to be created. She is constantly aiming for harmony of form and colour and enjoys experimenting with a base glaze of her own formulation to make a wide spectrum of colours, both vivid and subtle.
'My vessels are made on the wheel using white earthenware clay. My work explores the relationship between form and colour and I'm inspired in part by the still-life paintings of Giorgio Morandi - by the simplicity and quiet conveyed by his pictures of groups of bottles and other vessels. I want my pots to have the same sense of being in family groups, related but non-identical. I have formulated a smooth, semi-matt glaze, and I use this as a base to which I add oxides and stains to get a spectrum of colours. The inspiration for these comes from nature: flowers, fruit, the landscape, birds' eggs, the sky and seashore.'
Lucy Burley's work has been featured in many leading art and interior publications, including on the front covers of Ideal Home and House Beautiful magazines.
