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Liz Mathews at Potters' Yard


studio potter and lettering artist

London, England

  • Ceramics
  • Lettering
  • Mixed media
  • Website
  • E-mail

I work with words in clay and handmade paper, as well as Thames driftwood and other found materials, making celebratory pots, artist’s books, paperworks, wall-hangings and sculpture: physical poetry in a material world. I also make meticulous miniature low-relief sculptures and architectural studies in clay, including house portraits to commission. I set up my first studio in London in 1986, with the writer and poet Frances Bingham.

Focus:
Lettering in many media, and architectural sculpture in low relief
Commissions:
Available for commissions

Potters’ Yard House Portraits

Ongoing

Meticulous miniature house portraits in clay by Liz Mathews, with a gallery of her favourite subjects, an exhibition preview and details on commissioning.

Daughters of Earth

Ongoing

A gallery-blog of works in clay and paper by Liz Mathews, including news of work in progress, detailed articles on techniques and processes, and some arcane digressions.

The Dunkirk Project: Nine days in May 1940

Ongoing

An interactive installation and resource centred on Liz’s monumental artist’s book Thames to Dunkirk, which opens to a free-standing paper sculpture 17m long, and is now the largest book in the British Library. The Dunkirk Project welcomes contributions and responses exploring its theme of the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, and runs a daily newsreel unfolding the story of one semi-mythic event shared by over 300,000 people.

I work with words in clay and handmade paper, as well as Thames driftwood and other found materials, making celebratory pots, artist’s books, paperworks, wall-hangings and sculpture: physical poetry in a material world. I also make meticulous miniature low-relief sculptures and architectural studies in clay, including house portraits to commission. I set up my first studio in London in 1986, with the writer and poet Frances Bingham.

Focus:
Lettering in many media, and architectural sculpture in low relief
Commissions:
Available for commissions

Potters’ Yard House Portraits

Ongoing

Meticulous miniature house portraits in clay by Liz Mathews, with a gallery of her favourite subjects, an exhibition preview and details on commissioning.

Daughters of Earth

Ongoing

A gallery-blog of works in clay and paper by Liz Mathews, including news of work in progress, detailed articles on techniques and processes, and some arcane digressions.

The Dunkirk Project: Nine days in May 1940

Ongoing

An interactive installation and resource centred on Liz’s monumental artist’s book Thames to Dunkirk, which opens to a free-standing paper sculpture 17m long, and is now the largest book in the British Library. The Dunkirk Project welcomes contributions and responses exploring its theme of the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, and runs a daily newsreel unfolding the story of one semi-mythic event shared by over 300,000 people.

  • Website
  • E-mail
  • Project

    Beloved houses (house portraits in clay)

  • Project

    Vessels containing volumes

  • Project

    Waterfalls and harvests

  • Project

    Meadow pots

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