NICHOLAS ARROYAVE-PORTELA

Ceramist. 1972. UK.

This new work by Nicholas Arroyave-Portela is like an epic poem where the raw material is clay instead of words, clay that is sensuous and alive, modelled and moulded, pressed, marked, stretched, cut and smoothed.

Embedded within these clay forms are images, myths and metaphors that interweave with one another so that everyone will be able to find details - shapes, textures, juxtapositions - to trigger memories and stimulate ideas.