Rachel Purvis and Lorna Cooper - Colour & Clay

Colour & Clay. An exhibition of painting and pottery
Open 10 am - 4.30 pm

We are delighted to welcome back Rachel Purvis, who works in stoneware and enjoys making useful objects – mugs, jugs and bowls – and glazing them with an earthy palette. She makes in her home studio in Tideswell in the Peak District. The making process, the throwing and the turning, she finds deeply meditative. Rachel is also lucky enough to be part of a wood-firing community in Blackwell. When wood ash, flames and a reduction firing are combined, the results can be stunning!

Lorna Cooper loves colour and experimenting in different media, usually returning to print and collage to express her love of the world around her. Inspired by an old ash tree in the field behind her home in Great Longstone, she loves bird imagery and the magic of the moon. Influences include Mark Hearld, Eric Ravilious, Henri Matisse and Winifred Nicholson.

Lorna has practised art all her life, with breaks to work and raise a family! Lorna studied fine art, printmaking and painting at Barnsley College of Art and Design and Exeter College of Art. She has recently retired from working as a Celebrant; she also sings.