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Sarah Walton is a potter who lives and works in
Alciston, near Lewes, East Sussex, England.
She has run a pottery there since 1975 using a large oil-fired saltglaze kiln.
She studied Fine Art at Chelsea from 1960-64 and Studio Pottery at Harrow from 1971-73.
Sarah acknowledges a debt to mediaeval pots, the arts of Mesopotamia and South-East
Asia, to Neolithic Art, to Western Painting, sculpture, architecture, music,
literature, poetry, wit, philosophy and religion, and to innumerable people
through the years, especially Weislaw Pilawski and Irene Milburn.
Landscape is a theme in her work. She has walked, drawn and painted it since
childhood and this lies behind her evolution of birdbaths which she has made
since 1984. Her ceramics are represented in 13 museums in the UK and she has
won 5 awards. Her work can be bought at Contemporary Applied Arts and
Contemporary Ceramics in London, The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh and
The Leach Pottery, St Ives.
Her studio gallery is open most weekdays, 11am - 5pm.
If you are coming a long way and/or wish to call on a weekend please telephone first
on 01323 811517.
Personal statement
Lewes Station
"Yesterday I sat waiting for a train at a local station and watched one of the attendants
as he signalled trains to depart. I've observed him over the years, the spring in his
walk, the economy of his movements, his relaxed but attentive ways. He dismisses trains
with sensuous ease and whistles while he sweeps the stairs at night. In a sense, he is a
model for how I try to work now, and even for what I make too. I took him for
ordinary until I saw he is so individual."
1996
Biography
Born 1945
Grew up and was educated in London
1960-64
Chelsea Art School (Painting)
1966-71
Middlesex Hospital, London (SRN)
1971-73
Harrow Art School (Harrow Diploma in Studio Pottery)
Apprenticeships with David Leach and Zelda Mowat
In 1975
Set up her own studio at Alciston, Sussex where she
works as a potter, using a saltglaze kiln.
Awards:
1975
Crafts Council Grant to establish a workshop
1978
South East Arts Bursary Award
1990
John Ruskin Craft Bursary
1993
South East Arts Major Award
1998
South East Arts Award
Work in Public Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Crafts Council, London
Contemporary Arts Society, London
South East Arts Collection, Hove Museum, Sussex
Castle Museum, Nottingham
Crafts Centre, Northern Arts, Cleveland
Norwich Museum, Norfolk
City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Newport Museum, Gwent, Wales
Arts Centre, University of South Wales, Aberystwyth
Paisley Museum, Scotland
Glasgow Museum, Scotland
Allen Gallery, Alton, Hampshire
Work may be seen on the following databases and Internet:
www.studiopottery.co.uk/html/pgal-swal.html
The Crafts Council Database 44A Pentonville Rd, London, N19 HF
Axis: www.axisartists.org.uk
Associations
Crafts Council Index, London
Contemporary Applied Arts, London (ex Committee Members)
Craftsmen Potters Association of Great Britain
Exhibitions
Since starting out in 1975, Sarah Walton has
exhibited in both Solus and many
group exhibitions both in the UK and abroad.
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