Joanna Veevers
Giving plenty of encouragement, enthusiasm and inspiration is central to all my courses.
What will students gain if they come on one of your courses?
An experience which introduces them to a process of drawing and painting with slips on plaster and transferring their designs to a ceramic surface through casting to produce unusually detailed and graphic works in clay. It is a process which people find intriguing and absorbing.
Are there any particular techniques/processes you use in your teaching?The technique uses a fine line scratched into plaster and the layering of marks and images with slips in a modular and sedimentary way prior to casting and firing. The technique results in a ceramic surface with graphic qualities which could be associated with some printmaking processes rather than with ceramics.
What inspires your own work?Other than the love of the process itself, the content and arrangement of my work is inspired by flavours from childhood – landscape, gardens, collections, the concept and visual nature of museums. Attention to detail and the division and sub-division of space, and the considered placement of elements within those spaces are my visual pre-occupations when drawing, designing and making.
Where can students see examples of your work?Contemporary Applied Arts London.
Where did you gain your training? Experience?
BA (Hons) Printed Textiles – Manchester Polytechnic 1982.
MA(RCA).Ceramics. Royal College of Art 1985.
Teacher Training C&G 7407 – KCC London 2006.
Numerous BA and MA courses in Art and Design since 1985. Currently teaching part-time in adult education..
Have you written any books/had articles published?Been included in books eg. “Ceramics and Print” by Paul Scott, “Porcelain” by Caroline Whyman, “The Tile” by Kenneth Clarke.
Do you belong to any professional groups/societies?Contemporary Applied Arts London.