British artist and potter Richard Pomeroy's hand-built porcelain dishes were the centrepiece at Lyndsey Ingram's Mayfair space in this year's London Craft Week 2022. The gallery, which specializes in postwar and contemporary original prints and works on paper, hosts both organized mixed exhibits and single artist displays.
Richard uses vibrant colored glazes and traditional Japanese kintsugi to modify and mold this simple, basic design into a variety of artistic items and receptacles. And instead of using a wheel, each item is handcrafted from porcelain by rolling out the clay and folding it over a base. The pots are bisque fired, then glazed and fired to over 1200 degrees Celsius. As a result of this uncommon manner of production, each item is unique.
According to Richard, the benefit of hand-building porcelain is that the rim of the vessel may be thin, making it pleasant to drink from, and it has the wonderful feature of transparency.
Pomeroy, Richard Porcelain is dishwasher and microwave safe; nevertheless, thermal shock can occur if boiling water is poured directly into the vessel without first warming it or adding a little cold water or milk. Vitrified high-fired porcelain has many of the same characteristics as glass.
Furthermore, Pomeroy believes in using color to brighten people's lives and kitchens. So there's a lot to select from: all the colors of the rainbow and more. Some of their customers choose to mix and match their choices, while others prefer to have one of each—a rainbow collection.
Pormeroy's impressive hand-crafted works-of-art are imbued with the time they were made and the purpose they were made for. They have an intrinsic beauty and value of purpose, a terrific kind of purpose, which is lovely.
