What do you see in this featured photo of one set of Fiona’s ceramic works?  (My answers at bottom of this post). Here’s a brief taster of an article in Craft Scotland – full version here.

1. she’d like her work to be on show at the new V&A in Dundee, Scotland (currently being built)
2. she makes freestanding ceramic assemblages
3. very influenced by medieval art in Florence, Italy
4. studied fine art at Goldsmiths Art College (sounds like the start of a Pulp pop song!)
5. as mature student, went on to study ceramics at Glasgow School of Art and Cardiff
6. happily blends fine art and crafts in her work
7. there are serious health and safety risks in her artmaking

The 8th fact is that I am instantly drawn to her work, its ins and outs, negative space, simple but cheerful colourways.

I wonder what you see in the shapes on the shelf?

What I notice in the constructions on the shelf are shapes and suggestions of:

elephant, teapot, nougat, pointing, half hoops and a bucket, negative space, a well, a house, a still, a pointing finger, a window, a door, niche, archway, cavity, emptying, filling and visual rhymes (where sometimes the shape is actual and the same shape is in an opening or negative space).