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David Burns
My pieces are all individual although I make multiples and sets and work mainly in the Japanese tradition. Handling the work allows people to discover and experience different key aspects of the pots whether it be weight, texture, feel or combinations of pattern and shape giving the viewer an insight into the artist’s thoughts. For the last two years, I have been working towards colour and surface texture within the anagama firing process.
Kintsugi is another area I work in, and I gain great satisfaction from including ancient pieces in modern work.
I choose to introduce decoration into my work at the very beginning and continue to overlay and add to forms in a variety of ways via addition and subtraction making use of a variety of slips, minerals and scriffeto until they are completely adjusting and altering along the way until I achieve my aim.
My work has always been influenced by the Japanese tea ceremony and medieval European ceramics and I enjoy fusing thrown and hand-built forms to, I believe, create more honest vessels.
- bemakers@yahoo.com
- David Burns
AWARDS
- BA Honours (2.1) Ceramics and Glass 1976
- The Licientiateship of the Society of Designer Craftsmen
- Post Graduate Certificate in Ceramics and Glass and 3d Design
- Post Graduate Certificate in Special Needs Education
EVENTS
- Various kiln building and firing courses, demonstrations and exhibitions
- Articles in Ceramic Review, Pottery Quarterly and the Log Book
- Being part of Grayson Perry’s Channel 4 television show and featured on one of his large Brexit vases
Kintsugi is another area I work in, and I gain great satisfaction from including ancient pieces in modern work.
I choose to introduce decoration into my work at the very beginning and continue to overlay and add to forms in a variety of ways via addition and subtraction making use of a variety of slips, minerals and scriffeto until they are completely adjusting and altering along the way until I achieve my aim.
My work has always been influenced by the Japanese tea ceremony and medieval European ceramics and I enjoy fusing thrown and hand-built forms to, I believe, create more honest vessels.
- bemakers@yahoo.com
- David Burns
AWARDS
- BA Honours (2.1) Ceramics and Glass 1976
- The Licientiateship of the Society of Designer Craftsmen
- Post Graduate Certificate in Ceramics and Glass and 3d Design
- Post Graduate Certificate in Special Needs Education
EVENTS
- Various kiln building and firing courses, demonstrations and exhibitions
- Articles in Ceramic Review, Pottery Quarterly and the Log Book
- Being part of Grayson Perry’s Channel 4 television show and featured on one of his large Brexit vases
