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APRIL 2008

GLORIA SEARLES and JAN LEWIN-CADOGAN

Jan Lewin-Cadogan 

West Wales School Of The Arts, Ceramics

Since moving to West Wales over three years ago, the influence of the landscape has inspired my study of the effect of memory on the emotional experience of seeing. My Pieces with their layers of clays, slip cast materials, oxides and lustres are meant to trace visual memory devoid of or refusing mimetic form, hovering on the brink of recognition. The passage of time features strongly within my pieces; marks, images and surface conditions come and go, leaving fragments of visual experience behind. The remaining fragments evoke meaning, sensory experiences that have been transformed by time, situation, and consequent memories. Memory is always in a constant state of change, complex and fragile, possessing an ethereal quality. My Ceramic work is for that reason rooted in the exploration of how memory, in this case visual memory, is built upon a sense of impermanence and change. As an observer, one is left to consider a combination of possibilities, possibilities created in part by one's own past, thoughts and memories.

Gloria Searles 

West Wales School Of The Arts, BA(Hons) Ceramics

My work is inspired by geology and the natural world. I have a metaphysical exprerience within the landscape that surrounds me and aim to evoke a similar response in my work through the use of material and form. My work being an amalgamation of the organic and the abstract using a variety of clays, oxides and volcanic glazes. I work intuitively, allowing the clay to have it's voice.