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Simon Drew Gallery Ceramics
Elaine Peto
Elaine Peto graduated from Exeter College of Art & Design in 1985, where she studied animals via livestock markets and the abattoir, using the media of photography and drawing to record the structure of the carcass.
In 1986, she set up a studio and continued the study of agricultural animals. Each animal is individually made by the process of slab building in clay, i.e. rolling out a sheet of clay and forming the body, then gradually adding slab by slab to form the whole animal. The details are then remodeled until the animal is complete. It is then biscuit fired, glazed and refired to stoneware.
Elaine says:
"I love to work with different pieces of fabric, shells, netting and brushes, which are impressed into the clay, forming a reference to animal hide and brand marks."
The result is a selection of very tactile and dynamic animal sculptures.
Elaine's focus has often been on agricultural or domestic animals, but she has also sculpted more exotic reatures such as okapis or mythical beasts such as minotaurs. She also experiments with incorporating other materials such as metals with ceramics.
Large Hare
H: 61cm £895
Sitting Hound
H: 43cm £650
Lying Dog
L: 44cm £590
Sitting Dog
H: 41cm £650
Small Seal
L: 33cm £325
Small Hare
L: 37cm £230
Small Hare
H: 33cm £230
Small Hare
H: 37cm £230
Badger
L: 59cm £690
Small Fox
H: 20cm £260
Zebra Head
H: 46cm £750
Fox on a Brick
'What's for Dinner?' £475 H: 44cm
Sitting Hare
£795 H: 56cm
Emperor Penguin
£760 H: 51 cm
Lying Down Lurcher
£440 L: 38cm H: 16cm
Small Hare
£195 H: 30cm
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