GARRETT, Ian


P.O.BOX 491
Swellendam 6740, South Africa

Tel: +27 (0)28 514 3282
Email: iangarrettceramics@gmail.com

 

CERAMIST

RESUME

 

I have specialised in making hand built vessels using the technique of coil and pinching. My pieces are finely burnished with agate pebbles, then pit fired or saggar fired with wood-bark and dried aloe leaves.

I view my work as reflecting a fusion of ideas based on my own personal background and national cultural identity, blending archetypal elements of ancient European and Indian ceramic traditions with those of Africa.

I am fascinated with the subtle possibilities of pattern making. With the formal elements of impressed line, textural contrast, positive and negative interplay and various complex constructions of symmetry, I strive to create a vocabulary of motifs in a style that can be identified as uniquely my own.