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Philip Wood
Primary Type of Art: Ceramics
Description
Philip Wood was born in Manchester in 1957, was educated at Southampton and trained in pottery at Farnham School of Art from 1976 to 1979. From 1982 he attended the Royal College of Art, and in 1989 set up his pottery in Somerset.
Philip's pots have a red clay body with interior and rim coated with cream slip. On the outside he applies finely detailed sprigs depicting animals, fish, birds, leaves and ornaments to the pots, together with a small amount of slip decoration, and then paints on a loose slip wash.
He also works in other styles; slipware in the tradition of Fishley and Cardew, and some work with lustre glazes, but since 1989 he has concentrated on the sprig-decorated pots in this distinctive style interrupted only by giving occasional lectures.
