Pauline Barnden

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Pauline Barnden makes sculptural and vessel forms inspired by the sea and the beach, using the natural colours and rhythms of the environment. Using stoneware and porcelain I create work based on objects found in nature such as pebbles, stones, fossil ammonites and shells. She then decorates them with dramatic colours and intricate patterns.

Pauline works with stoneware and porcelain clay firing at 1220 ̊C in an electric kiln. She uses a variety of methods of construction including thrown, coiled, slab, press moulded, slip cast and combinations of these processes. The clay bodies are coloured using oxides to achieve ‘rock strata’ effects. Pieces are decorated by inlaid coloured slips sprayed with underglaze and oxides. Pauline has developed her own glazes which are vivid blues and greens, creating unusual and often unpredictable results.