Studio Views

Studio views and recent commissions 2012.
A new series of work celebrating flora and fauna in Wales now on display .

Recent commissions of bespoke outdoor frost proof plaques.

Welsh Daffodils Spring bespoke vases .
From £50 including post and packaging.

Birthday, Christening,Annivesary and House name Plaques

Approx Sizes: Birthday, Christening 14cms & 20cms Wedding Plaques 20cms & 28cms
Prices 14cms £20 & 20cms £30. Wedding Plaques 20cms £30 &28cms £50(including P&P)

Bespoke Birthday, Christening and plaques for special occasions personalised
with name dates birth weights times etc Marriage dates couples names etc all individualy hand written . all plaques are high fired Porcelain and can incorporate personal designs.

House Plaques are high-fired glazed and frost proof maintaining origional colour.

Approx Sizes in the round 28cms Oval 30cms x 23cms .

Prices Round approx eg Simple Number and border design £70(including P&P)

Oval approx eg Name ,number or both and border design £90(including P&P)

(Bespoke designs to customers requests.)

Sunflower Vase selected for ‘60 Minute Makeover’ ITV1. 25 Years at The Old Wool Barn Cowbridge.
The Old Wool Barn was established by Mr. David John of Arthur John Ironmongers High Street Cowbridge for Artists and Designers to make and display their work in individual studios and was officially opened by Sir Nicholas Edwards in November 1984. Of the artists now in the Old Wool Barn Studios, Maggie Andrews Porcelain is the remaining founder member since its inception .

From a series of work first exhibited in the National Museum of Wales(Cardiff) at the conclusion of an Welsh Arts Council Research Fellowship(Ceramics Department, Cardiff School of Art and Design)using Porcelain in variable atmospheric conditions led to the adoption of a firing reduction process associated with RAKU.This technique requires that the work once bisque is re-fired to temperatures of 1000c and at the moment the glaze is seen to be molten and glass like , the piece is withdrawn from the kiln and placed within a sealable container to create a reducing atmosphere. This has the effect of creating surfaces on the forms that are more reflective of the primeval world, eruptive ,gaseous and being in a state of flux.This is not a process associated with use of Porcelain but the whiteness of the fired clay allows a depth and diversity of colour whilst retaining
a finesse in the making of the forms.

Raku

Porcelain vases, bowls and table lamps.
Each of the works displayed demonstrates an understanding and skillful working with Porcelain. The intrinsic translucency of high fired porcelains gathering the light of the day and enhancing the light that illuminates the night bringing to the interior space veils of whiteness and luminosity.

Butterfly Vase

Butterfly table lamp

Sunflower Vase

Crocus Bowl