Tuesday, November 25, 2014

'Brian Wood' jug with nectarines

White ceramic 'Brian Wood' jug with nectarines
Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 40 cm
The Otago Art School in  Dunedin  (NZ) has an excellent ceramics department with original and inspiring teachers including, when I was there, Jim Cooper and Maddie Child.

The white jug in this painting was made by Brian Wood who was a ceramic expert and curator even before he was an art school student. I bought it at a final-year student sale.

It has an unusual and graceful form and although it is not completely waterproof  I have kept it and admired it ever since. It is an art object but I use it as an  utilitarian object - I keep my paintbrushes in it. (Eat your heart out, Peter Voulkos.)

Jug with brushes

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1 comment:

  1. Liz6:39 am

    I met up with Brian at last year's Portage - he's had an interesting career too since art school - Wallace, then an auction house specialising in ceramics and now curatorial at the Dowse.
    We were privileged to see his flat and collection before he left Dunedin.

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