Slab-built porcelain ceramic vase by Maree and Paul Allitt

Slab-built porcelain ceramic vase decorated using stencils and slip colours. In the final vitrification firing some areas are glazed, making a contrast of matt and gloss surface, giving each piece a rich tactile quality.

The colours and pattern have a distinctively mid-century modern feel about them - this piece is predominantly green and white and black

Marée and Paul Allitt have been artistic collaborators since their time together at art school in Portsmouth during the 1970s. Their shared interest in surface, colour and pattern is central to their thinking. For many years they worked at Kettle’s Yard house and gallery in Cambridge, with its close association with British Modernism and the St Ives School. They’ve always been aware of other artistic approaches, such as John Clappison’s work at Hornsea Pottery.

They think of our ceramics as ‘approximately pots’, not significantly functional in the traditional sense, nor sculptural – works of art in their own right. There’s a tradition of pottery there that runs through Staffordshire flat backs and the like, something of the fairground, a glimpse of wonder.

Materials - Porcelain

Dimensions-(H) 18cm x DIA base-8cm x RIM 4cm