Meet our maker: Kate Sellers
We spoke to Kate Sellers about her Bloomsbury inspired ceramics she made for the Courtauld Shop.
“The platters I created for the Courtauld shop were hand built in my Kent studio using Staffordshire white stoneware. The clay body is very white in colour so is the perfect background to decorate with coloured slips in random patterns and designs. I fire once to bisque, then add glaze and use cobalt oxide to paint further designs onto of the coloured slips."
"This process intrigues me as the glaze makes the whole plate white and only turns transparent in the final firing, meaning I am painting without fully knowing what colour and shapes lie below. I like the freedom that this allows and the final outcome has a fluidity that I would not otherwise achieve."
"Inspired by Vanessa Bell and the Bloomsbury group, my intension with these platters was use colour and simple brush stroke to evoke this Post-Impressionist style. I am so inspired by the Bloomsbury group and the Charleston house it self.”
