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Colin Caffell ceramics
Colin produces mainly individual pieces of stoneware pottery fired in an electric kiln. These are hand-thrown, thrown and coiled, or composite original works mainly inspired by views of the ocean and coastal moorland of West Cornwall. Colin's greatest challenge with these misty sea and landscape pots - these paintings in the round - is to get glaze colours, which are basically chemical reactions, to behave in a painterly way, more like pigments. These effects, that have taken years of experimentation to develop, are built up with brushed-on coloured slips on the raw pot, followed by various dipped, inlaid and brushed on oxides and glazes before the second and, sometimes, third firings. Over time, they have become more and more painterly. The vessels on display are mainly examples of shapes and themes heI often returns to.

Colin developed his skills as a ceramicist at Camberwell School of Art in London, where he was taught to throw and design pots by many well known urban potters of the time: Ian Godfrey, Colin Pearson, Glenys Barton and Ewen Henderson, to name but a few. His greatest influence, however, has probably been Lucie Rie, to whom he will always be grateful for the time she gave him at her studio.

Colin is a full member and Secretary of the Penwith Society of Artists in Cornwall
 

Large Golden horizon vessel

Sunset cylinder

Hot sand, blue horizon - Minoan form

Still Sunset cylinder

Blue horizon cylinder

Blue horizon with reef

Blue horizon cylinder with bronze pigment

Tall Blue Horizon cylinder

Flared Blue Horizon vessels

Misty moorland cylinder

Fine bowl with cobalt blue ring

Fine bowl with bronze pigment

Fine bowl with bronze pigment

Soft Blue Horizon

Blue Horizon vessel

Sunset

'Snowstorm over the bay'

Minoan form - Blue horizon series

Blue Horizon - large bowl

Flared composite vessel - 'Harbour mouth' series

Flared seascape vessel

Flared composite vessel - 'Harbour mouth' series

Blue horizon

Atlantic Sunset

Afterglow - Minoan form

Blue horizon

Seascape vessel

Storm -

Moorland Mist - Minoan form

A selection of small Minoan style sunset vessels

Dark sky

Seascape vessel with bronze pigment, 2015

Misty moorland cylinder

'Atlantic Light' vessels

'Afterglow' - Minoan form

 



                                 Gallery Open Daily 10.30am - 5.30pm The Roundhouse Gallery, Sennen Cove, Lands End, Cornwall, TR19 7DF