Ceramic delights: two servings

Our exhibitions and landscape tour took us from Cumbria across first to York, and then to Norwich.  Two much admired women and one man were the reason: Frink in Norwich, but also in both destinations the two potters, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper.  My admiration for all three has been firm since forever, and increases as time goes by.

There is currently an exhibition of Lucie Rie's work at York Art Gallery.  Eirene's blog A Place Called Space has many photographs showing the exhibition.  The image above (from that blog post) shows a Lucie Rie bowl with a beautiful work, Portent, by Claire Curneen in the background.  She is also an artist whose work I have admired.  The added benefit of the York Art Gallery is that its collection of ceramics gives the opportunity to admire, enjoy, refresh, and introduce the pleasures of others' work as well as that of the main focus.  Gordon Baldwin's work was well represented too - see again Eirene's specific post on him.
While at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich to see the Elisabeth Frink exhibition, I also made a point of seeking out the ceramics collection.  There is a large vitrine each for Lucie Rie 

(image from here)
and Hans Coper, 

(image from here)
and both vitrines full of such extraordinary pieces.
It has been a positive stimulating start to a new year, and I am raring to go on my own work.