Ian Harris After studying painting, printmaking and ceramics at St. Luke’s College, Exeter, Ian Harris went on to teach ceramics and sculpture for many years at schools in Essex, Kent and Dorset. Over the past forty years he has been honing and developing a unique range of hand built stoneware vases and bowls, all based on his observations of natural forms. Every piece is individually created. Improvising around a theme he uses objects such as beach pebbles, sea shells, seed pods and clusters of garden bulbs as initial inspiration. The curved organic forms that he creates are further enhanced by the heavy use of texture, and metal oxides rubbed into the surface. Recent work has included a series of coiled bowls echoing the rhythms and shapes of the Dorset landscape. The rolling hills and rugged coastline of the Isle of Purbeck provide the inspiration for the carved and textures detail that is cut into the surface of the clay. Ian’s work has gone to private collections in America, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany and Holland.