The work of Ailsa Nicholson can be found at www.turnstonegallery.net
30th January 2010 - view Ailsa's new porcelain work on this first page. If you are interested in any of her work please phone the gallery on 01947 893289 or email us via the website. Although we always have a selection of her work in stock not every piece shown may be available, however we may be able to order a similar piece. Don't forget that the 'Own Art' scheme is available on any sale over £100.
Ailsa creates a variety of decorative wheel thrown pieces and hand-built sculptures which concentrate on form rather than function and explore both negative and positive space and the movement suggested within those spaces. Clay is never weighed and work is always cut freehand to ensure each pieces individuality.
She also makes larger scale sculptures produced through a process of wheel thrown double chambered donuts, sliced into sections and reassembled. These abstract pieces are inspired largely by her fascination with the secret world of microbiology. "This vast and bizarre world offers an inexhaustible supply of imagery, which complements the subtle metaphoric associations I wish to make."
Her most recent work explores the throwing and carving of clay and celebrates the colour of the clay itself with an unglazed finish, using only beeswax to enhance the raw clay. "I am also enjoying the freedom of movement and pattern found through marbling different clays together to produce simple yet decorative forms."
Links to Ailsa Nicholson's current pieces
smoked fired 'Fragment'; 29cm w, 16cm h; £55
lava bowl; 5cm h 28cm dia; £70
black carved form; 24cm h; £80
cracked spheres; 20cm dia; £70 each
black carved form; 20cm h; £70
smoked fired bowl; 14cm h, 30cm dia; £65
thrown drops; 28-30cm h; £50 each
orange / black cracked torpedo; 27cm h; £80
orange / black cut bowl; 14cm h, 30cm dia max; £65
black carved sphere; 18cm h; £70
Porcelain cabbage bowl; 10cm h, 20cm w; £45
blue 'eroded' wall piece; 26cm dia; £55
black turned form; 25cm h; £70
smoke fired sculpture; 25cm h; £50
carved vessels; white 25cm h £75; black 30cm h £75
smoke fired sculpture; 28cm h; £50
carved vessels; 25cm h; £70-75
carved torpedos; 23-25cm h; £75 each
black & white carved bowls; 12cm h, 30cm dia; £75 each
smoke fired carved form; 17cm h; £70
blue 'Fragment'; 29cm w, 16cm h; £55
Porcelain vases; 30cm h approx; £45 each