David.C.White

My ceramic work for the past 30 years has mainly focused on the area of stoneware pottery fired in oil or gas kilns. The work was to do with function, i.e. to cook with, to eat off or to drink from. Now I wish to draw attention to the demise of our natural world. Emphasis is now on the shapes and surfaces celebrating the dynamic flight of swifts and the hidden lives of fish in the sea.

To watch the beautiful silhouette of an acrobatic swift piercing the deep blue summer sky is a wonder of nature. It must have inspired our desire to fly. Yet this desire has progressed and seems to threaten that which inspired it. The sky is woven with the exhaust from aeroplanes and the number of swifts is declining.