“Making things out of clay is like sitting around a fire under the night sky. The feeling I mean, it’s like it takes me back through time and space, I could be anywhere on the planet, in any community of any era. Clay gives me the same timeless feeling. The earthiness, a kind of at-homeness, a kind of coming home. There’s a memory in clay that is VERY old, much older than myself, like an ongoing stream and I definitely connect to that”
Eve Howard is an artist using various media. She is a painter, a printer, and for the moment she is finding best expression through ceramics. People connect directly and immediately with Eve’s work. Her poetic pieces resonate with sincerity, warmth, simplicity, and a perfection of line and form.
The ceramic work pictured here shows one of Eve’s major and ongoing explorations, birds, in particular the sea birds that live around south-eastern Tasmania, which is where Eve lives and works for approximately half of each year.
Her work is on exhibit at several galleries in Tasmania, namely Handmark at Salamanca Place in Hobart, Potter’s Croft in Dunalley and Strahan Woodworks on Tasmania’s west coast. The joyous nature of Eve’s work has ensured they take off from this remote beautiful island and travel the world, creating a connection with people that is global.
  
Eve takes inspiration from many sources and a big one is the clay she works with. Its very name is an inspiration. Raku is a Japanese word meaning “joy, joyful,enjoy,fun” and the rich, red, earthy body of the clay creates a rough hewn rustic look, contrasting and augmenting the smooth dynamic that is characteristic of her work.
The work is handbuilt and her favorite tools to use include a rolling pin, a kitchen fork and a clay beater made from West Australian Snakewood (Acacia xiphophylla), collected in the Pilbara and made by Eve’s mother, Naomi Howard, also an artist. She then paints the work with under-glazes and slips that she makes herself from clay, oxides and ground Australian ochres. Finally the pieces are fired in a gas kiln at 1100 degrees.
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“When creating something, I start the piece, but as I’m making it, it begins to develop an energy of its own. It then continues to present itself to me. That individual’s character emerges out of the clay, like the bird has a personality of its own that I have no control over. It is showing me who it is and all I have to do is get out of its way! This is why I love it.”
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Exhibitions
". one of the most endearing shows I have seen."
Joerg Andersch (VIVA)
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February 22nd 2007 - March 12th 2007
Sidespace gallery
Salamanca Arts Centre 77 Salamanca Place Hobart Tasmania Australia
- 2002 'Gardens of the imagination'
Ceramics
Handmark Gallery
Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania
- 2001 'Viva'
Paintings and Ceramics
Handmark Gallery
Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania
- 2001 'Cockatoos, Crows and the Caberet Flats'
Paintings
Hunter Street Studio, Queenstown, Tasmania
- 2001 'Flying East'
Paintings, Ceramics and Prints
Beachbreaks Gallery
Galleries
More of Eve's artwork can be found at these galleries ...
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