Lady in Turban

A useful tool to help you co-ordinate with your colour scheme. Click away and have fun!

£60.00

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This terracotta figure by Sarah McDade stands approx 15cm tall.

Sarah has been making ceramics full time since 1982. Her stoneware and terracotta range of figures and heads each have a distinctive style and quality. Character heads are often humorous or whimsical, while the larger female figures express a tranquil contentment.

Terracotta pieces depict a simpler stylised form, developed from sketches and doodles, with details emphasised by incised lines. The ideas often come from looking at different shapes in fashion, but many just come from playing around with forms on paper. The vibrant colours provide a pleasing contrast to the clay. They are all made with a combination of slab building and modelling. The surface is painted or sponged with underglaze colour and oxides. She has recently been experimenting with using touches of glaze as decoration.

Sarah also works to commission, and has made many characters based on real people.

She has a wide experience as an artist in education, often working with groups of children on figurative or sculptural projects. Clay has an immediate appeal with all ages and abilities, and projects Sarah has covered have ranged from a mural on the theme of play, to totems made from clay masks. Public workshops linked to exhibitions have also been developed through galleries, and her current courses include educational centres such as Alston Hall in Lancashire.

She is a member of Linden Arts Group in Hebden Bridge where she shares a studio with other artists.