Jon Barrett-Danes
Ceramics has been a family tradition spanning four generations. The earliest records show a pottery at Hoo in Kent in 1834. Each generation has produced their own particular style of work. My father, Alan, was the first to break with tradition by leaving the family pottery and undertaking a formal college training and entering the pottery industry as a designer. I followed a similar path and completed my degree in ceramics at Bristol Polytechnic in 1985.
I suppose, looking back, I must have drawn from the work of my parents Alan and Ruth Barrett-Danes. I started with a pig, and to be honest it came quite naturally to me and since then I have been concentrating on developing handbuilt animal forms and other more sculptural pieces. My animal forms embody my concern for form and profile and my interest in illustrations incorporated into early ceramics also give my work strength and humour.
Jon Barrett-Danes has a long association with Twenty Twenty, his sheep and pigs are seen as old friends so we look forward to having a farmyard full at our Landscape Show in July.
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