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Pumpkin Seed Sunfish Ceramic Plate 16" x 9 " £180 Frank Hamer |
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Coney Ceramic Plate 9" x 12 " £140 Frank Hamer |
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Indian Threadfish Ceramic Plate 7" x 7 " Sold Frank Hamer |
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Welsh Char Ceramic Plate 16" x 9 " Sold Frank Hamer |
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Yellow Blenny Ceramic Plate 6" x 8 " Sold Frank Hamer |
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Shubunkin Ceramic Plate 8" x 6 " Sold Frank Hamer |
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Half Moon Angel Fish Ceramic Plate 6" x 8 " Sold Frank Hamer |
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Blue Bream Ceramic Plate 8" x 7 " Sold Frank Hamer |
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Zope Ceramic Plate 8" x 6 " Sold Frank Hamer |
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Amazon Hatchet Fish Ceramic Plate 9" x 9 " Sold Frank Hamer |
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Carp Ceramic Plate 8" x 7" Sold Frank Hamer |
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Short Big Eye Ceramic Plate 8" x 6 " Sold Frank Hamer |
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Three Sea Trout Ceramic Plate 12" Long Sold Frank Hamer |
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Starry Ray Ceramic Plate 9" Long Sold Frank Hamer |
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Carp Ceramic Plate 10" Long Sold Frank Hamer |
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Threadfish Ceramic Plate 7" Long SoldFrank Hamer |
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Hatchet Fish Ceramic Plate 7" Long SoldFrank Hamer |
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Welsh Char Ceramic Plate 16" Long Sold |
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Sea Trout Ceramic Plate 12" Long Sold |
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Carp Ceramic Plate 10" Long Sold |
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Butterfly Fish Ceramic Plate 10" Long Sold |
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Rudd Ceramic Plate 9" Long Sold |
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South American Piranha Ceramic Plate 8" Long Sold |
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Wagtail Platy Ceramic Plate 8" Long Sold |
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Tooth Carp Ceramic Plate 7" Long Sold |
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The Welsh Char Ceramic Plate 15" Long Sold |
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Star Shubunkin Ceramic Plate 8" Wide Sold |
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Pirahna Ceramic Plate 8" Wide Sold |
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Striped Angel Fish Ceramic Plate 8" Wide Sold |
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Two Amazon Hatchet Fish Ceramic Plate 11.5" Long Sold |
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Two Branded Hamlets Ceramic Plate 9.5" Long Sold |
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Frank Hamer Artist Potter Fish Plates The Potter's Dictionary South West Wales Fountain Fine Art Llandeilo I design and make press-moulded plates with fish for imagery. The plates incorporate ceramics with my interests in drawing and decoration. They should be read on four levels: as plates; as overall decorative objects; as specific imagery and, very importantly to me, as ceramic happenings. I like to see the thickness of glaze as it flows over the channels of sgraffito work, as it enlivens the coloured slips and fuses with the various added areas of pigment. I believe that ceramics should speak with the vocabulary of clay, glaze and colour strongly affected by fire.
I draw the fish on newspaper and cut them out to provide me with distinctive flat shapes. I use these to resist coloured slips to create the decoration. Some plates have as many as ten layers of slip brushed on to them and have other pigments applied before being glazed and reduction-fired to stoneware at 1250 °C. Fish can curve their bodies from side to side even to the point of nose to tail but have very restricted movement in flexing up and down as seen in a side view. Artists have always taken liberties with this up and down curve to give the impression of a swimming movement. I follow this precedent and I also accentuate the proportions of a fish and emphasise its detail to establish its character. The eyes, especially, are humanised, an anthropomorphic device used 300 years ago in the Middle East. Fish plates have their pedigree! |
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