Clay as Canvas. Blurring the lines between art and craft. Selected member of The Craft Potters Association.
Drawings from my sketchbooks filled with observations of life, friends, family, art museums and galleries.
Themes; the refugees, masks, zoom meetings, musicians, people on their phones, edgy portraits, at the cafe and at the beach.
Narrative or storytelling ceramics using clay and porcelain as my canvas.
The porcelain and stoneware clays are painted onto with coloured slips or etched into and the lines filled with underglaze colours, then high fired under a transparent glaze in an electric kiln.
‘This is primitive and sophisticated all at the same time’ an insightful comment on my Instagram account.
2024 Messums West, Wiltshire ‘Plates with Purpose’ 2 March – 29 April
2023 CPA New Members exhibition at Contemporary Ceramics Centre 2-25th February
65 Great Russel Street WC1B 3BF. Gallery opposite the British Museum
3d Prize Winner at Wales Contemporary Nov 2022
Wells Cathedral at Wells Art Contemporary Exhibition Art installation of Ceramic Porcelain Plates with illustrations of Fleeing Refugees July/August 2022.
Selected Member of the Craft Potters Association. Nov 2021
Selected for the RA Summer Exhibition 2021, on until 2nd January 2022.
Selected for the Figurative Art Now, Online Mall Gallery exhibition 2021
Winner of the Response to Lockdown category of the London Potters online exhibition, 2021.
Email | gail@gailaltschuler.com
Website | gailaltschuler.com
Tel | +44 7884 011 887
Shop | gailaltschuler.com/shop
Contemporary artist, painter, potter and art teacher. Blurring the lines between art and craft.
When I’m not printing onto porcelain, clay or canvas or teaching art and ceramic classes, you’ll find me out at museums with my sketchbook.
My work is inspired by drawing from observation and from art history.
I teach drawing, painting and hand built ceramics from my home studio in Finchley Central and on Zoom, to adults, teens and children.
PGCE and MA in Art and Design Education, UCL. BA in Fine Art and History of Art and a Diploma in Art and Design, from The Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
Publications
2020 www.artuk.org
2017 www.londonart.co.uk
1997 Risk Magazine, London. Front cover, February issue.
Cynthia creates unique forms in various types of stone, carving them into the images in her mind’s eye
Diana creates collage pictures using pastels and painted papers as well as making bead necklaces and printed textiles.
