Carolyn Genders

Carolyn's latest work can be seen in the Summer Exhibition 2011 and there is an insightful piece on her work in the June issue of Sussex Life, accessible on their website.

The natural world is the over-riding inspiration for Carolyn’s work: pebbles, rock strata, space, distance and landscape. Sketchbook drawing and notes record her personal vision and direct response to the rhythm and movement, surface and pattern of landscape and natural forms.

Using these observations to release her ideas, Carolyn seeks to create pieces that are an integration of form and surface. She is intrigued by the three dimensionality of form and of how it is visually altered by the addition of surface texture or pattern; distorted or enhanced, emphasising nuance of shape, creating mood and atmosphere.

Carolyn trained at Brighton Polytechnic in 3-Demensional art: Wood, Metal, Ceramics and Plastics, and went on to do a Postgraduate Diploma in Ceramics at Goldsmiths College.

She has actively shown her ceramic pieces since 1981, with exhibitions in the UK and Europe, and her work is now in many collections, including Cologne Museum , the Fine Art Society, Glasgow, and Hove Museum. It been included in many books, articles and catalogues both in the UK and abroad and her own very successful book 'Sources of Inspiration', published by A&C Black in 2002, has recently been reprinted, and she is now working on a sequel.

Carolyn is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association and has benefited from many awards to continue her explorative work in ceramics. She has lectured at Christchurch University, Canterbury, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the International Festival of Ceramics in Dorset, as well as to many Art & Craft Societies, Colleges and Potters' Groups. She is currently a short-course tutor at West Dean College.

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