30th January – 9th March
Painting by Emma Price plus, a beautifully crafted collection of pottery from Josie Walter.
Emma Price is an abstract and semi-abstract landscape painter, living and working in Surrey.
Emma’s work has recently described as:
“It’s like Turner met Rothko and they had a child ”
Having lived in both England and Australia, Emma’s paintings are expressions of her emotions and visual memories of the natural landscapes within which she has lived and travelled. Her work depicts an abstraction – a stripping back of the landscapes representational line and form – often creating an ethereal or atmospheric sense. She is curious about what is within each of us – our subconscious – how we see and interpret experiences and situations, and how this resonates independently. Her work often evokes a connection to a place or emotion within the viewer, prompting conversations about personal experiences, memories and thoughts.
Josie Walter began her ceramic journey after joining an evening class. This became a real passion and in 1976 she enrolled on the Studio Ceramics course at Chesterfield College of Art. After three years of throwing, building kilns, visiting potters and generally being immersed in pottery, Josie opened a workshop in Matlock. Further experience in production pottery was honed with Suzie and Nigel Atkins at the Poterie du Don in the Auvergne, France. Josie worked at Le Don as an apprentice for 6 months in 1980 making salt glazed domestic ware, then returned to the workshop in Matlock where she made once fired decorated earthenware pottery.
Now Josie is happily installed in a workshop that she had built in the garden at home in Matlock.