Matthew chambers biography ceramics daily

My beginnings in ceramics took me down two different educational paths that eventually joined at the start of my professional life.!

Matthew Chambers: It always feels great to have somebody fall in love with what I've made, so much so that they'd like to own and live with it every day.

Beginning his career in , as an assistant potter to Philip Wood in Somerset, UK, Matthew went on to gain a 1st class degree from Bath School of Art, and a.

My beginnings in ceramics took me down two different educational paths that eventually joined at the start of my professional life.

I began my training in with my apprenticeship at the pottery.

The great British ceramist MATTHEW CHAMBERS is now being represented as a permanent artist by Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste.

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“I make sculpture that is born from the potters wheel. Many sections are thrown and built to create a constructed beauty, rhythm, and symmetry in abstract form.

I am interested in the travel and progression of layered three dimensional pattern, and how this can create different qualities depending on the workings of three essential factors:
– The construction: Simplicity to complexity.

Circular or fragmented.
– The rhythm pattern: Different rhythms produced through the construction and the placement of parts.
– The viewing position and depth in form: Horizontal, vertical or angular. Inside space or enclosed rhythm.

It is a true love of the making process that drives the creation of my sculpture.

Through practice and persistence I have developed a unique way of making, and it is this alongside the versatility of clay that is essential in creating the individual character of the work”