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Leo Richardson RCA

His ceramic practice is a visual manifestation and interpretation of the theme of Art & Science within the landscape and its biodynamic cycles. The process involves collecting soil from various locations and then turning it into pigments in order to incorporate soil into an artistic and aesthetic medium.

Experiments are carried out on soil pigments, porcelain powder, oxides and glazing reactions to find different artistic possibilities. He is especially interested in observing the reactions between all these different materials when they contact each other in layers under varying temperatures. These observed reactions have exciting shapes, contours and edges that are developed through the understanding of how each material creates a surface and how it behaves in controlled conditions.

The wide range of colours and shapes are suggestive of the natural environment from which the soil samples were taken. His passion is for landscape and nature and his special interest is in exploring the basic alchemy of soil in order to produce aesthetically pleasing shapes and surfaces from soil and incorporate these into his ceramic practice.

Originally from Brazil. BA Ceramic Design at Central Saint Martins

@leo.richardsonceramics Borrow – Watercolor paper A3 size with soil pigment solution