Laurel Keeley
Ceramics
Laurel studied English and American literature and Arts at Exeter University and York University, Canada before studying Ceramics at Exeter College of Art& Design.
She has exhibited nationally and works from her studio in Exeter.
Laurel starts with the feel, balance and give of the clay; the texture inspires
the form, shape colour and line. She creates a variety of slab, hand built
and thrown decorative wares. Laurel does a variety of work, small scale porcelain
with wheel thrown shapes and small slabs; thorough a mid-range thrown and
slab stoneware pots and platters these are one- off pieces decorated with
porcelain, slips and drawn with an incised line, many finished with gold lustre
an a third firing.
Laurels large pots are coil built up to a metre in height
and are frost proof for siting outside. This more monumental scale work
has emerged form the coastal landscape of Dorset and developed in conjunction
with etching an stone sculpture s funded by a an Arts Council England grant
in 2003.
