HELEN MARTINO
Helen Martino describes her work as “serious, posh and frivolous.”
Originally a functional potter, making batches of domestic pots on the
wheel, she has developed into making individual pieces, both figurative
and vessel based..
Influenced by contemporary potters John Maltby and Gordon Baldwin, Helen
uses her pottery as a means of communication and expression.
Helen uses hand building techniques, manipulating soft, flexible sheets
of clay which are freely cut, curved and sometimes twisted. She plays
with perspective by distorting the objects as in a stage set. By inclination
she is also a painter, and views the flattened forms as a three–dimensional
canvas. The surfaces are painted using slips, underglaze pigments and
wax resist, occasionally adding gold, silver and copper leaf.
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