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Clare is a visual artist based in Nottinghamshire, UK merrily creating whimsical worlds full of happy characters with mud, colour and nature. Her ceramics and textiles work explores personal stories, snippets of nature and has a strong sense of pattern. Here's a little flavour of some of her creations.
Bird Bath
Charlotte likes to recharge after a long day by having a relaxing dip in her outdoor tub. If she's lucky, a little goldfinch will join her.
Earthenware, nichrome wire and decals
Earthenware, nichrome wire and decals
Concepts in Clay, Northern Potters Exhibition at Harding House Gallery
The Northern Potters Association (South East)
Exhibition 'Concepts in Clay'
Harding House Gallery, Steep Hill, Lincoln, LN2 1LT
Saturday 11th March - Sunday 9th April 2023
A exhibition of all things ceramic by twelve members of The Northern Potters Association. Located in the upstairs display space at Harding House Gallery.
Exhibition 'Concepts in Clay'
Harding House Gallery, Steep Hill, Lincoln, LN2 1LT
Saturday 11th March - Sunday 9th April 2023
A exhibition of all things ceramic by twelve members of The Northern Potters Association. Located in the upstairs display space at Harding House Gallery.
Dinner Date
‘Dinner Date’ - this character, dressed in his best shirt and bow tie is loosely based on Clare's sister’s Siamese cat, Jimmy. He was a beef stealing, white wine slurping kind of guy. One Sunday, he dragged a freshly cooked joint of roast beef over their fence. He'd stolen it from a neighbour's kitchen. Can you imagine looking around and finding that half of your roast dinner had disappeared into thin air? He was partial to sticking his head in wine glasses and having a good old glug. He was a great character!
Earthenware and nichrome wire
Earthenware and nichrome wire
Snowdrop Nature Hangings
Snowdrop Nature Hangings.
Earthenware, wire, buttons and driftwood
Earthenware, wire, buttons and driftwood
Tea Tales - porcelain cups
Ceramics or paper? Fragile, paper thin porcelain cups glazed and decorated with hand screen printed decals.
Uppercase, Issue 59
Featured in Issue 59 of Uppercase magazine.
Unfathomable calligraphy and joyful, accidental pattern making is my style. Working with Ceramics and Textiles, inevitably there is a cross over of the language of marks from one medium to another. Hand stitched loops on paper are pressed into the beautifully responsive surface of clay. Subtle, stitched and imprinted textures tell the story of my own style of gestures. I use disregarded items, such a pen lids and broken buttons, in the hope that I can breathe new life into them as mark making tools. Curiosity and experimentation are key. What happens if I stitch this and fold that? How will the edge of a broken paper clip look pressed into freshly rolled clay?
Unfathomable calligraphy and joyful, accidental pattern making is my style. Working with Ceramics and Textiles, inevitably there is a cross over of the language of marks from one medium to another. Hand stitched loops on paper are pressed into the beautifully responsive surface of clay. Subtle, stitched and imprinted textures tell the story of my own style of gestures. I use disregarded items, such a pen lids and broken buttons, in the hope that I can breathe new life into them as mark making tools. Curiosity and experimentation are key. What happens if I stitch this and fold that? How will the edge of a broken paper clip look pressed into freshly rolled clay?
Envelope book - paper, collage and stitch
Clare has a long held interest in creating art books and runs workshops in art book making.
Mills, Machines and Memories - Textiles Installation for Mansfield Museum
Clare Taylor was lead artist for Mansfield Museum’s National Lottery Heritage Fund project.
“Mills, Machines and Memories” celebrates the legacy of Mansfield’s textile industries. It takes the form of a permanent installation of hosiery created by Clare Taylor of Bus and Bird Arts and an accompanying film by John Slemensek of Bokehgo . The town’s textile heritage is represented by various items of hosiery, in the form of socks, tights and girdles of various shapes and sizes. Each item has the names, images and history of local mills and mill workers stitched, knitted and printed on to them alongside a stitched and printed record of conversations with workers from Mansfield’s textile factories. The imagery on the hosiery and the installation itself promotes conversation from visitors of all ages and acts as a collective memory of this treasured local industry.
“Mills, Machines and Memories” celebrates the legacy of Mansfield’s textile industries. It takes the form of a permanent installation of hosiery created by Clare Taylor of Bus and Bird Arts and an accompanying film by John Slemensek of Bokehgo . The town’s textile heritage is represented by various items of hosiery, in the form of socks, tights and girdles of various shapes and sizes. Each item has the names, images and history of local mills and mill workers stitched, knitted and printed on to them alongside a stitched and printed record of conversations with workers from Mansfield’s textile factories. The imagery on the hosiery and the installation itself promotes conversation from visitors of all ages and acts as a collective memory of this treasured local industry.
Home Cooked Heritage - series of 70 tea towels
Lead Artist for an Inspire: Culture, Learning and Libraries 'Home Cooked Heritage' project which aimed to promote the Nottingham archives. Inspiration was taken from an 18th century ledger from a well-known local stately home, Rufford Park, which detailed all the items bought during that era (akin to a future generation 300 years down the line looking at items on our Tesco bill!). Clare's role was to design, create and curate a touring exhibition of no fewer than 70 tea towels to help tell the story of Nottinghamshire's food heritage.
Tsukiyama - ceramic sculpture
Ceramic sculpture created in Japan 日本 as part of my residency in Tokoname for INAX. Ceramic sculpture decorated with engobe, oxide, underglazes, glaze and hand printed transfers.
Black and White No.2
Ceramic sculpture created in Japan 日本 as part of Clare's residency in Tokoname for INAX in 1997.
Ceramic sculpture made with black clay and decorated with engobe, oxide, underglazes, glaze and hand printed transfers.
Ceramic sculpture made with black clay and decorated with engobe, oxide, underglazes, glaze and hand printed transfers.
Family Ties
Ceramic wall piece
Porcelain tiles and hand dyed roughly smocked textiles.
Porcelain tiles and hand dyed roughly smocked textiles.
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