{"id":9,"date":"2008-03-31T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T09:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.workshops-at-wobage.co.uk\/news\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:09:56","slug":"jeremy-steward","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.workshops-at-wobage.co.uk\/news\/tutors\/jeremy-steward\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Steward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"\"Jeremy Steward trained in Cornwall and then in Cardiff before being invited to join Wobage in 1995. Since then he has made wheel-thrown, wood-fired salt-glazed stoneware and porcelain.<\/p>\n

“Alongside a driving motivation to make functional pots, I am inspired by the soft fluidity of the materials themselves; clay on the wheel, slip and raw-glaze.<\/p>\n

My work is decorated in various ways; I often draw, a sort of wet scragfitto, while the pot is still on the wheel, or after the pot has been slipped. Otherwise they might be embellished with stamps, roulettes or finger-wipes, a vocabulary of abstract marks which are forever changing, but which consistently provide movement and fluidity in their accentuation or distortion of form.<\/p>\n

My involvement with wood-firing and salt & soda-vapour glazing, forms an intimate and dynamic aspect to my making. Subjected to the vagaries of kiln atmosphere and flame movement, the pots celebrate a meeting between the conscious and unconscious. Control and intention exercised in the studio, is tempered by the inevitability of a certain unpredictability in the kiln-fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJeremy is a potter content to take his time to develop skills and experience but adamant that these will arrive due to ways of working suited to him. These include: making clay bodies, slips and glazes of his own composition; throwing on a momentum wheel, raw firing with wood & salt\/soda.<\/p>\n

The work emerging from these conditions is therefore undergoing a constant honing for form, colour and function. What I most admire is the \u2018bone and muscle\u2019 of the throwing. But equally I like the fact that there is a quite distinct \u2018track of events\u2019 evident in his work. I have called it the fourth dimension – time. I can see and feel the time and rhythm of these pots from clay, through forming and firing, to the finished work ready for use in domestic surroundings.\u201d Mick Casson<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jeremy is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain.<\/p>\n

His work can be purchased from Wobage Makers Gallery<\/a> in South Herefordshire, and from Contemporary Ceramics<\/a>, 63 Great Russell St. London.<\/p>\n

Jeremy reveals the details and techniques used to make his wheel-thrown and rouletted teapots in this Ceramic Review YouTube video<\/a><\/p>\n

For more details and images, here’s a link to Jeremy’s own website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t