Belsay County First School is situated at the heart of the small
village of Belsay, Northumberland. The village is dominated by Belsay Hall
and Castle. The estate features a garden created in a quarry, from which
the stone was cut that was used in the construction of the Castle and Hall.
The Belsay Estate was the inspiration for the images on these ceramic panels.
This project started with a day long workshop with two staff members the
school, in my studio. At which they had a crash course in ceramic techniques
.During the autumn of 1988, I did ceramic workshops with all 70 pupils at
the school, as a result of which they each made a tile which was used to
frame the panels produced in my workshop.
I designed the panels using details from drawings, made by the children,
together with my own. Using tube-lining and glaze painting techniques to
put the images on to tiles. |
