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Riot of colour, a set of battling figures - a ceramic sculpture by Simon Fell

Riot of colour

This is an image of people who are are in an unspecified conflict for an unspecified reason. I see this as a reflection of our times in particular but there is no time in history when conflict was not present.

New Wave, aluminium figures on glazed plinths - a ceramic sculpture by Simon Fell

New Wave

Small distant figures recur in my sketchbook.
I use them to signify scale - it gives a sense of scale to the surroundings so the small figure brings that awe about the world, about nature the amazing variety and massiveness of it all.

BauWauHaus - a ceramic sculpture by Simon Fell

BauWauHaus

In this work the container morphs into something that echoes a contemporary two story dwelling with a literal and lateral twist in the post modernist spirit – Bauhaus with a cherry on top.

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I make ceramics and draw, creating figures and structures that evoke personal and common paradoxes. The work is broadly figurative. My works carry myriad uncertainties rather than single meanings, allowing viewers to discover their own connections. My physical discovery process creates ambiguity and richness – complexity that emerges from real making. In our increasingly digital world, my artwork offers rare encounters with something made by a human body and a human mind and discovered rather than designed and predetermined.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”157061″]An image showing both sides of a Limited Edition Print card showing the ceramic sculpture by Simon Fell and a set of four images on the back with some text on a white background with a QR code bottom right[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ overlay_color=”color-xsdn” overlay_alpha=”21″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1/2″ uncode_shortcode_id=”840789″ overlay_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”187526″]Work in progress[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”156879″]

There is a constant struggle that goes on between control and letting go in both the conception and production of the artwork. My work currently takes the form of still lives, vehicles, figures and hands. Craft or ‘tacit’ (bodily know-how) skills are now more likely to be part of our leisure rather than our everyday work. Whatever skills that I use in handling the material and understanding how it works may show in the finished item but the work also has other content which is likely to overshadow the display of dexterity – both things are going on at the same time.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ overlay_color=”color-xsdn” overlay_alpha=”21″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1/2″ uncode_shortcode_id=”840789″ overlay_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”216453″]A modified representation of Makers HeadRoom in session. This image of nine people in a Zoom session is modified in Photoshop to make the participants less recognisable and make the image more like a digital painting[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”367805″]

Makers Headroom

MakersHeadRoom is a weekly online group conducted over Zoom. We work together as a group of individuals, to share our presence and our energy in a virtual space where we concentrate on making. The session is conducted without words but with microphones on. The two hour session on a Monday starts at 2:30pm (BST) until 4:30pm. Sign up for the emails or see the Instagram feed for updates[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”20″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”85″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ content_parallax=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”149017″][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”2″ overlay_color=”color-wayh” overlay_alpha=”20″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1/1″ uncode_shortcode_id=”647661″ overlay_color_type=”uncode-palette”][uncode_block id=”5016″][uncode_block id=”67596″ inside_column=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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