Vivienne Ross

Each piece is unique; hand-made, indivdually decorated and signed. I work with a red earthenware clay which is decorated using coloured slips and glazes. My interest lies in making pots, which act as a container for both objects and ideas.

The shapes are kept simple, made using hand-processes such as press-moulding, coiling and slabbing. With a restircted palette of colours and figures I work intuitively and spontaneously allowing my everyday thoughts, pre-occupations and sometimes anxieties to dictate the direction of the images created. the figurative decoration, often described as dreamlike, is achieved using brushwork, stencils and sgraffito. ultimately I would like to let the viewer bring their own interpretation to the work.