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A few years ago I decided to have a go at pottery in an attempt to find something creative to do that did not involve painting or drawing.
I am one of probably many people who have always believed they were not artistic, we were the victims of the painful 'try's hard' school art teaching system that stamped all over anything that was not perfection.
My compensation for this lack of creativity in my life was a camera, but somehow the camera failed to fulfil the desire to DO something with my hands that would produce a creation.
This is where the pottery came in, however my two years of evening classes did little to change my belief that I had no artistic talents at all, I could not recreate the delicate teapot of one of my fellow students, nor could I produce the lifelike head of another student and actually I had no real desire to do so.
I wanted to create the type of art that came from the heart or the soul and that would have some meaning to me if not anyone else. I was pleased with my two years worth of creations, they had fulfilled my requirements but they didn’t feel worthy of the title of art. These creations has been formed by a feeling and a knowing over which I had little or no control and they almost flowed and grew in an organic way.
My creations have been placed around my house for a while now and it was not until I recently read some of Silvia Hartmann’s articles on http://1-art.eu that I realised that I had created art perhaps more so than some of my classmates who had sought to make a perfect decorative or useful item.
Hence I have decided to give the rest of the world the opportunity to enjoy these creations, they are there for your perusal on http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/114184887803966286982/Pottery#
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