Visitors entering the newly refurbished lobby of One Canada Square will find the expanse transformed into a lively, vivacious, and uplifting environment, surrounded by a Cornucopia of vibrant colours and shapes.
Patricia Volk admits that she is obsessed with form, line, and colour, playfully implementing these in her one-off ceramic creations. Working in clay she uses a variety of techniques including coiling and slab building. After the pieces are fired, she painstakingly mixes shades of acrylic paint to finish each element before combining them to create the structure of each sculpture. Every piece is a unique and individual work of art that surprises and delights.
This mid-career retrospective comprises over 40 sculptures which span three decades of the artist’s work, including a selection of sculptures that have never previously been exhibited. Words by Cornucopia curator, Jacquiline Creswell.