I've been invited to the Western Front for the Auction Preview tomorrow evening. In the list of work available our plates appear under 'The Raiders', valued at $1000. http://westernfrontauction2013.tumblr.com/post/44165944520/the-raiders-2013-set-of-8-plates-estimated-market Click on the link to see the invitation to the preview and the Saturday Gala Dinner and Auction. Our eight plates are shown on this link.
Eli quietly spent much of the time on the fine plate with grey quarters. He is interested in patterns and in discovering what colours we have or can make. Again, we don't know which of his pieces will join the 8. His third piece that day was a mug I'd thrown for him. It is mainly black and, sorry, we didn't take a photo.
Katie so enjoyed herself on the previous 'raid' in January that she invited herself here for another chance to paint plates! I guess it makes a change from her regular job working in the Western Front. It will be her responsibility to assemble the 8 plates and display them. Here are her two carefully painted plates with images based on a portrait.
Renée always arrives here well-armed with collages from which she chooses the shapes and colours of her paintings. She even had an oval cut-out ready to frame her composition. I really enjoy the way she takes the underglaze colours and mixes them to produce all manner of shades. This time she painted two plates and then a smaller oval but deeper dish. It is…
One of the four February artists visiting my studio was Sally Clay. After she had painted a regular oval plate Sally chose to paint this spherical vase. I had thrown it for her some time ago and, like the plates, it was bone-dry. On the whole these visiting painters tend to ignore the shape of the plate or the rim and take colour across these…