Horse frightened by lightening.
Adrienne Craddock
This new piece was titled Bonny white mare but as I put it together it reminded me of that Stubbs painting ‘horse frightened by lightening’. I was horse mad and fascinated by Stubbs as a child – by all those gleaming coats and wild eyes.
I made little Nativity retablos like this one just before Christmas. They are just 7cms high and 5cms deep…difficult to capture the shadowy depths in a photo!
Little nativity
Shellie Byatt
I kept this one and have just packed it away in the Christmas box. I’ll be making some more with different themes, maybe Rumpelstiltskin or Red Riding Hood.
Shellie Byatt took part in the Clive Hicks-Jenkins’ Puppet Challenge and then used her puppets to make figures for a box in the nutshell series.
The wolf and the woodcutter
Shellie Byatt
The wolf was made from a flannel – beware the flannel in wolf’s clothing…
The woodcutter’s shirt was ripped, untimely, from an innocent dolly.
A simple, unpainted clay piece by Adrienne Craddock, refers to the Goose Girl or Mother Goose.
Goose girl
Adrienne Craddock
The figures are housed in an old leather jewellery box, much-loved but minus its lid.
The kind shepherd Shellie Byatt
Air-drying clay gives great effects on its own….Adrienne added paint to hers which expanded our ideas about how we could use this medium.
Ooo ooh… a snake!
Adrienne Craddock
Shellie started adding fabric to her figures…
The unexpected message
Shellie Byatt
Adrienne developed ways of using the clay to represent fabric….
Lady with a squirrel
Adrienne Craddock
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