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The Northern Potters
Festival at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston in
September 1998 successfully brought together a practical
overview of ceramics and print with a look at the origins of
this phenomenon and its current directions. A series of lectures
and studio demonstrations was given by an international panel of
artists to a packed house. The use of decals (either
screen-printed by the artist or taken from the open collection)
was illustrated by the Cumbrian Blue(s) works of Paul Scott
(England) on bone china plates, the slip-decorated earthenware
of Philomena Pretsell (Scotland) and the figurative ceramic
collages of Neil Brownsword
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(England). Les
Lawrence (USA) and Maria Geszler (Hungary) elegantly
demonstrated the building up of images by screen printing slips
and oxides via plaster bats or directly onto wet clay slabs and
the alteration of images on such printed slabs by jigger/jolly
was shown by Gregory Deakin Bell (Australia). Relief printing
onto clay from carved plaster by Mo Jupp (Wales) and the
transfer of linocut designs to clay by Juliette Goddard
(England) took us close to the basics of printing technology.
Patrick King (Switzerland) explained ways to exploit original or
photocopied newsprint as a simple medium for transferring text
to clay and the ultimate link between clay and print was
provided by the raw, transient clay installations of Jefford
Horrigan (England) with their surfaces of pressed-on
photocopies.
