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 Richard Ballantyne - Raku Cow. |
Richard Ballantyne I started my artist career at Bradford College of Art, where I studied as an interior designer prior to starting work as such for Samuel Smith’s Brewery in Tadcaster. After a spell destroying the character of a multitude of pubs and clubs in the North of England, I returned to university at Bretton Hall to retrain as a teacher. I then taught in secondary schools – first in Yorkshire and then Northamptonshire. My first teaching job was to run a ceramics department and so I started at evening class to keep one step ahead of the children. Thus began a lifetime love affair with the material. In 2003 I left full time teaching and returned to university to complete a degree in glass and ceramics at High Wycombe and now I make a full time living as a ceramic artist with some lecturing at High Wycombe University as well as Thames Valley University. My ceramics are as varied as the British climate – the work being both sculptural and functional, life size and miniature – from Raku to high fired porcelain. Being not only a pyromaniac, but also a bit of a magpie, my work often incorporates found objects in the sculpture, anything from ash from Mount St. Helens in a glaze, to stones washed on the beach used as plinths, every thing tells its own story. |
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