My Friday Review this week is about my pottery tutor: Jean Tolkovsky. I and 7 of my fellow keen pottery group members spent a day with Jean in her studio yesterday making models similar to those Jean creates. I use the term 'similar' very loosely as we produced some very interesting pieces. Several of my fellow pottery students have been with Jean for many years and some of the work I have seen them create over the 3 years I have been on the course is amazing and worthy of any good art gallery.
However, fabulous though their work is my review is of Jean's work and to demonstrate the range of her skills, this photograph is of the outside ornamental pot I bought from Jean last year (I couldn't resist it and already have my eye on another large outside pot she has made):
This is another remarkable piece; fabulous rabbit-style ears - the colour of them is a salmon-pink shade and the finish is beautiful. This is a piece you need to see in the 'flesh' to fully appreciate.
As you can see from the above photograph and the following ones, some of Jean's pieces are really quirky and as she says:
'I produce one-off figurative pieces including punks, jesters and other quirky characters........... I aim to produce work which carries a narrative but is also open to interpretation.'
Still with the quirky, for me the next photograph is great. I can't decide if my interpretation is people sitting in a doctor's waiting room or school boys sitting waiting outside of the head master's study, waiting to be reprimanded for something they have done (and been found out for):
Jean's recent work is very different to these previous pieces:
Aren't they beautiful? They look so delicate and elegant - really stunning pieces.
If you would like to know more about Jean's work, where she exhibits and the events she is taking part in this year, please visit her page on the Surrey Artists' Open Studios website. I am sure you will agree her work is amazing and as it's always changing, so you never know what she will create next.
Jill
Jean is remarkable. You work certainly catches my eye!
ReplyDeleteJean's pieces certainly are unique,in a good way I have to add. I really like the small figures she creates they have such great character.
ReplyDeleteAli xx