Tondo: Ceramics & Prints

We’re delighted to be showing work by Lucy and Guy Rutter in their first collaborative exhibition.

Lucy and Guy have worked together on these pieces hoping to echo form and colour in both prints and pots, each inspired by the other’s work. The title of the show, Tondo, is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art, either a painting or a sculpture. Here it refers to the use of round forms in both Guy’s works on paper and in Lucy’s ceramics.

Guy worked at the Porthmeor Print Studio in St Ives developing his monoprint technique and then continued to work in his own studio which is adjacent to Lucy’s pottery studio.

Lucy has been developing quite an extensive collection of hand-made glazes for the works, mixing and creating small glaze tests in order to create a new palette of colours on the simple nesting straight-sided forms she has been making for some time. Unglazed on their outside, the colour pools on the inside of the pieces.

Although Guy is primarily a painter, he also uses screen printing and lino printing as well as monoprinting; printmaking often operates as a way of developing ideas that are then realised later in paint. He also works in film and television as a set painter, and in many ways his use of scale, repetition and technique in his prints and paintings can be seen to link with this work.

Lucy uses a potter’s wheel to make functional ware for kitchen and table use, and has a particular interest in pared-back simple forms with muted glazes and smaller pops of colour. She also teaches at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, and her work is inspired by their standard ware range as well as by twentieth century Scandinavian ceramics.

Some of Lucy’s work is online here. We can notify you when items are back in stock if showing as unavailable. Click on the link on the product page on our website.

Lucy’s straight-sided nesting bowl sets are not online, but do email us for details of prices and availability.

Guy’s monoprints are unique and available to buy in store or by mail order. Email us for details.

The show is open now, and will continue throughout September and into October.

We’re closed Tuesdays, open on other days from 10.30am–5pm.

Thanks to Sam Grady for the photographs.