Blandine Anderson
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.