Linda Styles Art Pottery

My practice mostly relates to the exploration of the emotive and instinctual, my main purpose being to use unorthodox expressions of colour, line and space. Although I am outwardly immersed in colourful chaos, this freedom of expression is necessarily underpinned by considered and formal elements of design, manifesting in tangible objects that reflect and focus on love and all that is beautiful in this World, The method I use is intense, complex, solitary and silent, the studio being my devotional space, my purpose remaining constant regardless of material, method or outcome. I strive to achieve a palpable tension of opposites that is affecting on many levels. I also remain conscious of the fact that throughout history/prehistory pottery has carried the potential for expressive visual surface on a multitude of form, the complexity of which delves beneath transient fashion. I mainly work from memory and reflection, in ceramic form, using the concept of evolving process and organic abstraction to create colour, line and space, I merge background into object, object into background, suggestive, evocative and always open to interpretation