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Image of title,Earthworks Pottery, earth, water, fire, and soul. Unique and individual,handmade pottery by Wendy Gill.
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An image of Wendy's version of a seventeenth century Staffordshire slipware owl jug and cup. Its a reproduction of the famous "Ozzie the owl" discovered by Henry Sandon on the BBC programme The Antiques Roadshow.An earthenware owl 9-10 inches tall,whose body standing on a pedestal,is the jug and his head lifts off as the cup.The colours are, yellow,orange and black like tawny owl feathers.The handle curves round to make tail feathers and his claws grip the orange pedestal.He has big round eyes and an orange beak.
Animage of the window display at Earthworks Pottery inSt.Asaph,North Wales.There is a great variety of pots, from teapots,piercedware, mugs jugs incense burners and cookware such as casserole dishes, Lasagne dishes and flans.Also garlic pots,bowls and soap dishes.All the pots are handmade on a potters wheel and fired at the studio.They are decorated with flowers like water lillies,lavender,papyrus and meadow flowers.Animals like tigers, leopards,lions,sheep,cows and chickens.Birds like peacocks, flamingos and egrets. There are Celtic designs and dragons.There are astronomy inspired pots,sun moon and planets.Astrology inspired pots for people who follow their starsigns.
An image of WendyGill. Wendy makes all the studio pottery,she designs, throws and decorates the pots at Earthworks Pottery in the vale of Clwyd since 1987,and has recently added Erddig Hall, a National Trust property near Wrexham, to her list of places she has exhibited her work. Others include,Oriel Ynys Mon on Anglesey,Oriel Plas Glyn Y Weddw at Llanbedrog, The Gateway in Shrewsbury, Harlech Pottery,Wrexham library, Theatre Clwyd, The Royal Cambrian Academy, Oriel Bangor,Ruthin Craft Centre and Oriel Pendeitsh in Caernarfon.

"Ozzie the owl"

Wendy makes repros of the famous Ozzie the owl, a rare 17th century slipware owl from Staffordshire. "Ozzie" was discovered on the Antiques Roadshow by Mr Henry Sandon. Both he and the former owners of "Ozzie," have one of Wendy's repros. Wendy also makes the Adam and Eve plates and some of Thomas Toft's puritan and Cavalier plates.

Earthworks Pottery Window

Earthworks Pottery is the studio where Wendy Gill designs, makes and sells her pottery. Each piece is handmade on her potters wheel, and all stages of turning, decorating and glazing, are done by Wendy. The studio is situated on Lower street, in St. Asaph, North Wales.

The pottery is varied: teapots, vases, plates, jugs, bowls, jars, and many other pots, too numerous to mention. All decorated by carving, piercing, sliptrailing and other styles and techniques. All in colours of yellow-gold, greens and terracotta reds and some beautiful blues. Designs of roses, tigers, peacocks, waterlillies, panthers, lavender, sunflowers, planets and stars.

People often comment that Wendys' carvedware reminds them of Moorcroft. Wendy makes commemorative ware for anniversaries, Christenings, marriage, even solar eclipses and comets.

Wendy

Wendy makes all the pots you see here, at her studio in St. Asaph. She studied at Wrexham College of Art for four years, before starting her studio in 1987. Here she has worked since, enjoying potting and meeting all sorts of people from the UK and around the world.

Her inspiration comes from beautiful welsh meadows and gardens, world myth and history, archaeology, and the tropical paradise and untamed garden of nature.

Her aim is to keep working where the inspiration takes her, not get bogged down in the mundane, but seek and make the extraordinary.

     
     
     
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