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Since1992 Petra has had occasion to work as a designer for the Dartington Pottery in Devon. This collaboration resulted in Petra creating her own distinct work featuring the famous Dartington Pottery reduction stoneware glazes. Fifteen years of trial and error with these 'mercurial' glaze colours and familiarity of their rich variants in texture, flux and luminosity enables Petra to use them to great and original affect. 'The glazes often suggest the subject they might best portray. A rain drenched sky or powdered moth wing… my inspiration comes from many forms: Landscape, nature and the world of myth and symbol. Then of course there is the shape of the pot which is a 3D canvas and so also needs to inform the glaze painting's composition.' Petra is now able to produce her own distinct pottery in a recently built log cabin studio at her home on Dartmoor. It has been a natural progression from painting with glaze on pots to painting with oil glazes on canvas. The more immediate and forgiving nature of oil paint allows for an intuitively felt attention to detail with which to explore worlds of dream and symbol, the vibrant intensity of colour mirroring those in her ceramic works. Ceramics
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