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Jane Perryman is a potter based in suffolk. Jane creates spherical vessels that are balanced on a either a tall clay wall structure or a sloping bridge-like structure. Balance, interaction and surface design are all fundamental themes to Janes work.

Janes work generally shows an interaction between two forms, one is a rounded vessel with thick walls and no base that resembles a cup, the other is a wedge that is an angular shape, sometimes straight and sometimes curving or sloping, which resembles a wall, a bridge or a building. The cup is  balanced on top of the wedge and as it has no base, appears as though it will roll and topple over at any moment. However, the centre of gravity lies in the base of the cup, meaning that though cup isn't static and can rotate and move around, it will always come back to an upright position. This gives an advantage to  play around with the position of the cup and how it sits ,  as the vessels always appears to be tilting and  balanced on a tipping point very close to the edge of the structure, about to fall or roll away at any moment.

Jane creates her pieces using slab building, moulding and coiling techniques, she was influenced by the designs and techniques which potters in india used when creating their pottery.  This was also perhaps her influence for using alternative firing techniques as pottery in india is typically pit fired.

Jane is not very keen on the idea of using glazes and none of her ceramic ware is glazed, Janes instead makes ceramic ware has an unusual surface design. The slab built object and the coil built vessel that sits atop it will share the same pattern, making them appear as a whole rather than two separate components. The pots have very little or no colour, instead they appear to be white, grey or black, their variation achieved by the firing they have gone through and the clay mixture they were made with. The interest in these vessels lies largley in the texture and surface pattern, which Jane achieves by mixing stoneware and porcelain, adding organic materials and using different sorts of materials in a saggar firing process. Jane burnishes the vessels before bisque firing then sandpapers the vessels again before the saggar firing.

Lothar Goetz creates paintings of block colour that have been influenced by bauhaus and modernist aesthetics. Lothars work ranges in scale from small drawings and canvas paintings, to very large paintings that cover a full wall or room. another style Lothar considers an influence is Baroque architecture, specifically baroque churches and the way the interior has been organised.

 Lothar has a BA in design and  an MA in painting, which he achieved at the Royal college of art in London. After graduating Lothar began to take commissions and create public artwork, his very first public art piece was a commission for a library where he painted the walls with stripes of colour which were inspired by the colour coded markings on the books.

Lothar has said that his colour palette is generally spontaneous, he doesn't pick colours based on whether they contrast or compliment one another, instead he is more interested on how the colour reflects and enlivens its surroundings and how people perceive different colours in different environments.

 Lothar has been a part of some really big art projects over the years. He has done work for a housing trust whereby he painted a shelter for  people who were homeless, this was a group project where he involved the the people living in the shelter, encouraging them to think about the space they lived in and what colours they would prefer.

another project he created was for a church which was often used as an exhibition space, the church asked if he could create some permantant artwork, and so Lothar made coloured seats which could be organized into rows, this added a more fun, playful atmosphere to the church.

Lothar also took on a project in Ashbury, the aim of which was to bring art to the centre of the town, he discovered that in the centre of the town there was a derelict building that looked like a portable cabin. The cabin had been created in the 60s, and so had been lying derelict for some time. He decided then to regenerate the building by painting it bold, vibrant colours in a geometric way. This caused some outrage among locals and gained publicity as many of the residents hated the block and wanted it removed permanently. 

Lothar also painted the inside of the haymarket metro station in Newcastle and I would certainly say this to be his most famous and recognisable art to date. Lothar has been engaged in so many projects and comissions over the years, he has painted staircases, hospitals, passageways, and smaller  art, like portable bars and temporarily boarded-up buildings. He has also recently started using colour on windows by applying coloured vinyl strips to them.

Christiaan is a glassblower who moved to the United kingdom to continue his studies in glass art. He gained an interest in glass whilst he was enrolled on an Art course in the Netherlands which briefly touched upon the subject of glass art. He began travelling through Europe and working in various glass studios pursuing his interest in Glassblowing.

Christiaan began his career glassblowing simple, colourful vessels, he was  quite passionate about illustration at the time and decided he wanted to combine his interest with illustration with his glassware. He initially tried Photosensitive transfers which were successful but he found the process quite boring, however, he them discovered he could apply marker pen onto the photosensitive sheet image and it would print onto the glassware the same way, which was a quicker and more preferable way of printing illustration onto glass.

Christiaan was also quite interested in character design at the time, creating figures that look like teddy bears and stuffed toys, with large heads and a cartoonish rounded body. He used these types of figures in an exhibition called “homemade” where his characters had the theme see no evil, speak no evil hear no evil and another one called think no evil.

Christiaan continued to create vessels with images onto the glass using a paint called paradise paint, which no longer exists. Christiaan quite likes graffiti which inspired his drawings for some smaller keepsake vessels he created. The pictures he has used on these vessels are quite tiny and are magnified by the glass which I think is a pretty interesting and innovative way of combining glass with illustration.

below are some examples of the illustrated glass vessels

Christians current range of glassware is all a similar theme that has been inspired by his fondness for marbles as a child and by the works of Albert Sofesso, an artist who drops coloured liquid into water which creates a beautiful elegant pattern, giving a strong impression of movement. Christiaan imitated this fluid style by creating a vessel with two mixed colours, which he then destroyed and the re-captured by adding a new thicker of glass. This creates quite a stunning effect with two individual colours swirling around each other in a flowing irregular pattern, the thick line work in the vessels is a lovely effect and the overall piece looks like material captured in glass.  Christiaan has explained that he prefers his glass vessels with a thicker layer of clear glass around the edges, as this helps give the trapped colours inside the illusion of levitation.

These images show the different digital effects I used. There are three clips I created using the overlaying method in Imovie. The overlaying method is where one piece of footage is placed over another, this will cause both pieces of footage to run at the same time. I then made the footage on top more opaque so the second piece of footage can vaguely be seen underneath, the idea behind this is that one part of the footage is concealed behind the other and represents the "Secret". The clip containing a road at night overlapping the sea and the clip containing the tree bark overlapping some water both show my intention of hiding a different piece of footage, though with the third screen shot (the reflection on a river and the shadow of some tree branches overlapped)I wanted to try and make it appear as though this was all one film rather than two separate merged films. The forth clip appears to be rain drops falling from a cloud. The raindrops are actually a special effect on my phone that I used when recording the sky, I especially like this technique as its so realistic. I also made some cinemagraphs which I felt were important in my film however I have decided not to post these as they will show up unanimated and appear as a still photograph.