Dawn Isaac
DAWN ISAAC (dei ceramics)
The artist and inspiration
Dawn Isaac has always had a deep affinity with nature, landscape and wildlife. This passion infused her childhood, her studies and career and of indeed her desire to create both art work and a better environment. She gives equal commitment to the study of materials and method, the value of recycling and exploration of nature's designs in her creative pursuits. Dawn has worked with most mediums - textiles, being a skilled embroiderer, glass too - but she always comes back to the clay. Ceramics provide an infinite number of possibilities - the connection with the earth - and then the element of risk and failure, never quite knowing, that suspense which is almost addictive, as she waits to see what the Kiln Gods deliver.
The honest craftswoman
Her work exudes an honesty, simplicity and practicality, with a great respect for her repurposed tools - knife and fork, cheap brush, grandma's old rolling pin and tea strainer for making glaze and slip. Her studio, the erstwhile laundry room is busy, creatively chaotic with half-finished forms, things that need hooks or rods or are being contemplated. She recycles everything - the clay from pieces not fired, or not good enough to sell, packaging, fabrics to make patterns and imprints. She desires to share her work to audiences, but very specifically to sell her work to buyers as this enables her art to be self-sufficient, creates more space and provides the ability to make more to fill that space!
The work: simplicity versus detail
In contrast to the intricacies of her smaller work, Dawn depicts the simplicity of nature with larger more naïve outdoor sculpture created from Crank type clay, used for its robustness, stone-like quality and interesting toasted appearance. These larger pieces, animals, faces, pots sometimes quirky or abstract or incorporating a moving part are highly simplified, their shape and natural colour contrasting with the greenery.
Moving forward
During the Covid lockdowns, Dawn has continued to expand her techniques joining several online pottery and textile courses/events and explore pattern making and working with porcelain. Having already sold her bonsai pots to a trade customer, she is now expanding this side of her practise.
Contact details:
Tel: 01780 729111
Email: deiceramics@gmail.com
Web:www.deiceramics.com
IG- #deiceramics & #deibonsaipots
FB Dawn Isaac Ceramics
Rutland Open Studios Art Trail 2023 exhibition address:
The Risings, 2 Barrowden Road, Ketton, PE9 3RJ
Dates: 9 - 10, 16 - 17 & 24 September
Time: 10.30am - 4pm
The artist and inspiration
Dawn Isaac has always had a deep affinity with nature, landscape and wildlife. This passion infused her childhood, her studies and career and of indeed her desire to create both art work and a better environment. She gives equal commitment to the study of materials and method, the value of recycling and exploration of nature's designs in her creative pursuits. Dawn has worked with most mediums - textiles, being a skilled embroiderer, glass too - but she always comes back to the clay. Ceramics provide an infinite number of possibilities - the connection with the earth - and then the element of risk and failure, never quite knowing, that suspense which is almost addictive, as she waits to see what the Kiln Gods deliver.
The honest craftswoman
Her work exudes an honesty, simplicity and practicality, with a great respect for her repurposed tools - knife and fork, cheap brush, grandma's old rolling pin and tea strainer for making glaze and slip. Her studio, the erstwhile laundry room is busy, creatively chaotic with half-finished forms, things that need hooks or rods or are being contemplated. She recycles everything - the clay from pieces not fired, or not good enough to sell, packaging, fabrics to make patterns and imprints. She desires to share her work to audiences, but very specifically to sell her work to buyers as this enables her art to be self-sufficient, creates more space and provides the ability to make more to fill that space!
The work: simplicity versus detail
In contrast to the intricacies of her smaller work, Dawn depicts the simplicity of nature with larger more naïve outdoor sculpture created from Crank type clay, used for its robustness, stone-like quality and interesting toasted appearance. These larger pieces, animals, faces, pots sometimes quirky or abstract or incorporating a moving part are highly simplified, their shape and natural colour contrasting with the greenery.
Moving forward
During the Covid lockdowns, Dawn has continued to expand her techniques joining several online pottery and textile courses/events and explore pattern making and working with porcelain. Having already sold her bonsai pots to a trade customer, she is now expanding this side of her practise.
Contact details:
Tel: 01780 729111
Email: deiceramics@gmail.com
Web:www.deiceramics.com
IG- #deiceramics & #deibonsaipots
FB Dawn Isaac Ceramics
Rutland Open Studios Art Trail 2023 exhibition address:
The Risings, 2 Barrowden Road, Ketton, PE9 3RJ
Dates: 9 - 10, 16 - 17 & 24 September
Time: 10.30am - 4pm
