About
Josep makes reduction fired functional pottery and ceramic art pieces from his studio at Croft Pottery in North Yorkshire. Whilst Japanese and Korean pottery techniques and forms influence his work, Joseph also draws inspiration from the places he explored and studied; His work is often a response to a site or area: Visually, through a response to the topography, physically, through the use of raw materials foraged from the vicinity or metaphorically, through the use of form, patterns and emblems which explore the folkloric narratives.
He likes to use found materials in his practice, digging clays and silts for clay body mixes and slip decoration and combine them with ash from organic sources such as trees, shrubs and plants and rocks and minerals to make his glazes. This ‘Gatherer’ and often ‘Alchemistic’ approach adds a personal journey of exploration and experimentation which creates a unique physical and emotional connection between the pots he makes and places he explores. Joseph’s philosophy towards making is definitely led by the joy I get from experimenting and exploring and is based on a fundamental love of tactile processes and play.
