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Title
Barbara Dunshee Pottery
Description
My Lidded Vessel Series embodies movement, balance and caricature. Feeling my way through the shapes I explore the exaggerated, circus-like nature of toys, odd characters, flora, fauna and anything that exudes both poise and precariousness. -Barbara Dunshee
Barbara's art and design background (and her own playful persona) play a major role in her fascination with shape and color. Music, nature, drama and amazing physical acts that defy gravity are the kind of things that excite her and inspire her Lidded Vessels. Their animated forms evolve on the wheel as Barbara feels her way through the forms, searching for a visual and tactile life to emerge.
Barbara welcomes the non-immediate process of this chosen medium. Each variable along the journey carries additional influence in the outcome of a piece and adds to the mystery of its existence. Breakage and disappointments are (eventually) welcomed as driving forces for innovation and individuality.
