Paul Wearing is an award-winning ceramicist based at the Fireworks Clay Studios cooperative in Cardiff. His ceramic vessels are inspired by our interconnectedness with nature’s seasons, and explore the correlation between the cycles of nature, the making processes, and the innate qualities of natural materials. Paul is a Selected Member of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain and was elected to their Governing Council in 2018.
“It is the correlation between the slower emerging cycles of nature and the making processes which harness innate material qualities leading to alchemical developments within the kiln that underpins my work. I am drawn to the vessel as a great symbol of civilisation and one that echoes the built environment in which I live. In contrast, naturally occurring textures found within both urban and rural environments perpetually interact and alter this sense of order. Surfaces undergo energetic change and transformation through forces of growth and decay, and it is these events; the evidence of lived moments which can be seen as life affirming”.