Eddie Curtis |
Eddie Curtis studied at Bath Academy of Art in the early 1970's, a time when the Leach movement was very strong, and influenced both him and many other contemporary potters and students. Eddie established his own pottery with his wife Margaret in 1979 in Wearhead in County Durham.
Eddie and Margaret work predominantly in high-fired stoneware. Their pots are usually wheel thrown and sometimes altered or manipulated while still soft. A highly perfected copper red glaze is often used as a backdrop to impressionist patterns of dolomite creams, chrome greens and cobalt blues. Precious metal lustres are also added to certain pots, which are three times fired to enable the precious metal to fuse to the surface.
Eddie and Margaret choose their colours carefully and aim to avoid the sombre colours so commonly associated with high temperature ceramics. They see their ceramics as functioning within the traditional framework of the Leach school, but believe this is reinterpreted with each new project or idea.