Shirley Vauvelle
Shirley's art education background and initial design career was in textile/surface decoration, studying at Chester college for a foundation course and Leicester Polytechnic for a BA Hons, graduating in 1987.
Self taught in ceramics, she works from a light filled studio in her home, which has been featured in publications and is situated near the east coast English seaside town of Filey. An important part of her surroundings is her garden which is continuously being developed and evolving, full of many interesting plants selected for form, texture or colour, many of which are used within her work.
The work is now moving forward to be more reflective of her own surroundings of the coast, with shape, colours and moods. Exploring textured slip surfaces, playing with found materials onto the clay and with strong form.
Acrylic and mixed media paintings are on canvas or board, layers applied then rubbed away, colour re applied, areas painted over, wet paint drawn into. Starting points for compositions come from sketchbook drawings of reactions to landscape and natural forms. Mark making using handmade tools, varieties of brushes, anything that is laying around the studio that produces the emotion or mood within the materials used.
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