“Just as individual words make up a sentence, so my ceramic shapes become a visual poem. Piece by piece, step by step. Each ceramic component relates to and affects those around it, like words on a page.”
After studying English Literature & Art History at University, Caroline Egleston pursued her own creative journey, drawn to the fresh and colourful brushwork patterns of Italian tin-glazed earthenware. During a two-year ceramics diploma at Faenza, near Bologna, she could absorb the visual stimulation of Italian colour and pattern and, on returning to the UK, she set up her ceramic workshop, creating ceramic scapes for interior and exterior spaces.
More recently, she has undertaken an MA in Ceramics at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey.
The workshop, Piccolpasso, means ‘small step’ - a gentle life philosophy. But also, in the 16th century, Cipriano Piccolpasso wrote about ceramic practice - translated into English by the late Alan Caiger Smith.
“Capturing the energy of the ‘in-the-moment’ gestural painting has become the impulse behind my work.
Fixed by firing, my gestural marks are layered, glaze on glaze, clay slip manipulated to record spontaneous action.. Often experimental, like a writer searching to articulate meaning and exploring language for connection.”
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
