Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter

ceramic

Richard Baxter makes finely thrown porcelain with glazes in distinctively bright, bold and beautiful colours. He favours forms with simple clean profiles reminiscent of mid-century modern Scandinavian ceramics, but retaining a sense of spontaneity. On each piece he varies the curves and applies the bands of bronze pigment to fit each form, so every pot is unique. Richard fires in electric kilns, he encourages variance and imperfection.

Education
1978-81 BA First Class Honours in 3D Design (Ceramics)Loughborough College of Art & Design.
Ricahrd is currently studying on TOMA, an alternative Fine Art MA, making work for exhibitions throughout 2016-2018.

1981 Crafts Council Setting-Up Award.

A professional potter for 37 years, Richard has made over 110,000 pots. He works from his studio and gallery in Leigh on Sea, Essex. He lectures and demonstrates in schools, colleges and for potters’ groups.

Selected for the following shows

MadeLondon Canary Wharf
Hepworth Wakefield
Anglian Potters at RHS Hyde Hall
Leigh Art Trail
Potfest in the Pens
Art in Clay Hatfield and Farnham
Richard is a longstanding demonstrator/exhibitor at Art In Action.

Career highlights.

Richard has met Lucie Rie and Michael Cardew in their studios. He was taught by Arthur Griffiths (a Bernard Leach pupil), Martin Smith and David Scott.

Richard made large porcelain bowls for Stella McCartney's Hong Kong and Paris stores, jugs for Heston Blumenthal’s Roman Feast C4 show and David Chipperfield RA (architect of Turner Gallery) owns 2 bowls. Cook/poverty activist Jack Monroe uses Richard's dinner ware for recipe photoshoots. He has sold at the Henry Moore Institute and the Chelmsford Museum in Essex recently acquired a large bowl.

Bonhams and Phillips auction houses have sold Richard's work. He made recreations of Leonardo da Vinci percussion instruments for the V&A's Leonardo exhibition.

In 2014, Richard represented the UK in Buenos Aires at IMCA, South America’s premier ceramics symposium, making work and lecturing.

Richard's work often appears in magazines like BBC Good Homes, Grand Designs and Country Homes and Interiors, in books (most recently Linda Bloomfield’s Colour In Glazes), and has been featured in several television programmes including EastEnders one Christmas Day!

Woburn Mosaic Exhibitions

ceramic

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