ARTIST PROFILES
 
 

Jean Tolkovsky

Working from her Surrey studio, Jean Tolkovsky creates one-off, thought-provoking, figurative ceramics, best described as illustration in clay. Initially captivated by a visit to the Museum of Childhood, her work draws inspiration from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and childhood memories, merging into 'toylike' figures conveying thoughts, feelings, or loose narratives, often open to interpretation.  Her most recent work explores themes from Greek Myths in a more naturalistic style.

 

Jean Tolkovsky

Working from her Surrey studio, Jean Tolkovsky creates one-off, thought-provoking, figurative ceramics, best described as illustration in clay. Initially captivated by a visit to the Museum of Childhood, her work draws inspiration from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and childhood memories, merging into 'toylike' figures conveying thoughts, feelings, or loose narratives, often open to interpretation.  Her most recent work explores themes from Greek Myths in a more naturalistic style.

 

Jean Tolkovsky

Working from her Surrey studio, Jean Tolkovsky creates one-off, thought-provoking, figurative ceramics, best described as illustration in clay. Initially captivated by a visit to the Museum of Childhood, her work draws inspiration from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and childhood memories, merging into 'toylike' figures conveying thoughts, feelings, or loose narratives, often open to interpretation.  Her most recent work explores themes from Greek Myths in a more naturalistic style.

 

Jean Tolkovsky

Working from her Surrey studio, Jean Tolkovsky creates one-off, thought-provoking, figurative ceramics, best described as illustration in clay. Initially captivated by a visit to the Museum of Childhood, her work draws inspiration from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and childhood memories, merging into 'toylike' figures conveying thoughts, feelings, or loose narratives, often open to interpretation.  Her most recent work explores themes from Greek Myths in a more naturalistic style.

 

Jean Tolkovsky

Working from her Surrey studio, Jean Tolkovsky creates one-off, thought-provoking, figurative ceramics, best described as illustration in clay. Initially captivated by a visit to the Museum of Childhood, her work draws inspiration from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and childhood memories, merging into 'toylike' figures conveying thoughts, feelings, or loose narratives, often open to interpretation.  Her most recent work explores themes from Greek Myths in a more naturalistic style.

 

Carolyn Genders
Living in the country I cannot ignore the seasons and the consequent transformation of the landscape throughout the year. This influences my work and referring to landscape studies in my sketchbook and the marks and brushwork of my life drawings, I work intuitively on forms developed from organic sources. Responding to the material, enjoying the rhythm as I move around the form, I make marks of depth and variation, scratching and scraping through layers of slip, revealing the clay and emphasising the dryness of engobe or the softness of burnished slip; the silky surface emerging as polished as a sea worn pebble. I work spontaneously, creating forms and surfaces that evoke the feeling I have when I am part of the landscape, not illustrating it but striving to convey nuance of shape, balance and mass and creating mood and atmosphere.

 

Carolyn Genders
Living in the country I cannot ignore the seasons and the consequent transformation of the landscape throughout the year. This influences my work and referring to landscape studies in my sketchbook and the marks and brushwork of my life drawings, I work intuitively on forms developed from organic sources. Responding to the material, enjoying the rhythm as I move around the form, I make marks of depth and variation, scratching and scraping through layers of slip, revealing the clay and emphasising the dryness of engobe or the softness of burnished slip; the silky surface emerging as polished as a sea worn pebble. I work spontaneously, creating forms and surfaces that evoke the feeling I have when I am part of the landscape, not illustrating it but striving to convey nuance of shape, balance and mass and creating mood and atmosphere.

 

Carolyn Genders
Living in the country I cannot ignore the seasons and the consequent transformation of the landscape throughout the year. This influences my work and referring to landscape studies in my sketchbook and the marks and brushwork of my life drawings, I work intuitively on forms developed from organic sources. Responding to the material, enjoying the rhythm as I move around the form, I make marks of depth and variation, scratching and scraping through layers of slip, revealing the clay and emphasising the dryness of engobe or the softness of burnished slip; the silky surface emerging as polished as a sea worn pebble. I work spontaneously, creating forms and surfaces that evoke the feeling I have when I am part of the landscape, not illustrating it but striving to convey nuance of shape, balance and mass and creating mood and atmosphere.

 

Carolyn Genders
Living in the country I cannot ignore the seasons and the consequent transformation of the landscape throughout the year. This influences my work and referring to landscape studies in my sketchbook and the marks and brushwork of my life drawings, I work intuitively on forms developed from organic sources. Responding to the material, enjoying the rhythm as I move around the form, I make marks of depth and variation, scratching and scraping through layers of slip, revealing the clay and emphasising the dryness of engobe or the softness of burnished slip; the silky surface emerging as polished as a sea worn pebble. I work spontaneously, creating forms and surfaces that evoke the feeling I have when I am part of the landscape, not illustrating it but striving to convey nuance of shape, balance and mass and creating mood and atmosphere.

 

 

IN THE WINDOW

 photo
Title:  'Make a Wish' Hare on Horse
 POA
 
Description:
Ceramic Sculpture
Artist: JeanTolkovsky 
 
 
 photo
Title:  Enchanted
 POA
 
Description:
Ceramic Sculpture
Artist: JeanTolkovsky 
 
 
 photo
Title:  Magical Days
 POA
 
Description:
Ceramic Sculpture Set
Artist: JeanTolkovsky 
 
 
 photo
Title:  'Carrots' Hare on Aardvark
 POA
 
Description:
Ceramic Sculpture
Artist: JeanTolkovsky 
 
 
 photo
Title:  Small Hares
 POA
 
Description:
Ceramic Sculpture
Artist: JeanTolkovsky 
 
 
 photo
Title:  Soft Jazz Vessel
 POA
 
Description:
Ceramic
Artist: CarolynGenders 
 
 
 photo
Title:  Monochrome Dusk Sculptural Form
 Ceramic
 
Description:
POA
Artist: CarolynGenders 
 
 
 photo
Title:  Monochrome Dawn Sculptural Form
 POA
 
Description:
Ceramic
Artist: CarolynGenders 
 
 
 photo
Title:  Jazz Red Interior Vessel
 POA
 
Description:
Ceramic
Artist: CarolynGenders 
 
 
 

 

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