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Diane Griffin

  • Ceramicist
  • Towcester, United Kingdom
  • Master Artisan
Diane Griffin Ceramicist
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Poetic ceramic sculptures

  • • Diane is a ceramic sculptor based in England
  • • She has over 30 years of experience working with clay
  • • Her creations are rich in texture and meaning

It is impossible not to be mesmerised by Diane Griffin’s ceramics. Inspired by human experience and emotions, as well as rituals and ceremonies, her works depict contrasting abstract forms. Diane works with soft slab forming, slabbing, throwing, and hand building which allows her to create different forms and surfaces that captivate. Her signature stroke is to create paper-thin finishes. She uses traditional techniques in porcelain and stoneware clays. Diane has a BA Hons in Ceramics from West Surrey College of Art & Design. She set up her first workshop in 1988, right after graduation. Her works are frequently exhibited around the UK and internationally, including at both London Art Fair and Collect.

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Works

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Beyond Words

This ceramic sculpture is made of two thrown teardrops, one shiny gold, the other marbled gold. They lean towards each other, touching slightly, and sitting on a stack of paper-like sheets of unglazed porcelain, ruffled and folded.

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Hand in Hand

This ceramic sculpture consists of a shiny black thrown teardrop nestled in a stack of thin, ruffled paper-like unglazed porcelain which is emerging from a cracked and textured organic hand-built rock shape in natural tones of brown.

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Solace

This ceramic sculpture is made of a shiny white thrown teardrop balanced on a pile of paper-like ruffled porcelain sheets. The white porcelain sheets rest on a rough and textured hand-built rock-like form of black, brown and white.

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Ascension

This is a triptych ceramic sculpture made of three square pillars of ascending height, each in organic browns. The top sheets are shiny gold and two pillars have a golden teardrop.

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Embrace

This sculpture is made of porcelain and earthenware. Two mottled platinum and black thrown teardrops lean towards each other and touch slightly. They sit in a stack of thin white paper-like sheets of unglazed porcelain seemingly ruffled at the edges.

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