Blandine Anderson

Riverside MillMaker Showcase GalleryExhibition

11 Dec

Maker Showcase

Ceramics.

Blandine has established a reputation as an artist intent on pushing creative boundaries and has gained an enthusiastic following for her hugely collectable one-off sculptural works. This showcase will celebrate the launch of her third book - a collection of related ceramic works and display of supporting found and natural objects.

“Although my work is dominated by the theme of animals in landscape – the driving forces behind it are composition and proportion. Since I come from a Fine Art background, I lean towards a sculptural approach. My work is an ongoing search for the perfect combination where animal enhances form to the extent where both are balanced and evident in their own right”.

19 September - 14 November 2026

Maker Showcase Gallery

Events

Saturday 19 September, 10am - 5pm: Book Launch / Signing and Meet the Maker with Blandine Anderson

About the exhibitor

Blandine Anderson | Ceramics | Devon

Blandine Anderson trained in Ceramics/Fine Art at Exeter College of Art and Design and then lectured for five years at Somerset College of Arts and Technology and at Bridgwater College.

She established her first fully professional studio in 1989, producing unique ‘one off’ pieces, individually hand-built in either porcelain or stoneware. Coming from a Fine Art /Sculpture background, she leans towards the more sculptural approach.

Her ceramic work depicts creatures in landscape but the driving forces behind her ideas are really composition and proportion.

While some pieces are designed as a whole, the base forms are often conceived before the overall piece is composed. The piece is then “populated” with creatures chosen to enhance the base-form e.g. hares and foxes for long fluid lines; sheep to punctuate; birds to break through the form. The base form may be completely altered by adding a creature, it may be enhanced or (visually) destroyed.

No repeat methods are used in the construction of the work.

Colour and texture are created using porcelain slips which are stencilled, painted, stamped and incised. Oxides and glazes are added after biscuit firing and fired to Stoneware at 1245º.

Website: blandineanderson.com
Instagram: @blandineanderson1

About the book

This book reads as an autobiography, but it is really about the ideas that are formed throughout our lives and linger on in our memories, images that take hold in the psyche and become part of our essential selves, so that whether we like it or not, we return to them again and again.

Blandine will be celebrating the launch of her book, joining us for the day to sign books and chat about her work.

Saturday 19 September, 10am - 5pm
Maker Showcase Gallery in The Wheel Room at MAKE Southwest

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