Pamela Thorby has swapped her life in music as a virtuoso recorder player for a new path in craftsmanship and communication, this time as a ceramicist.
Based in York where she now makes from her own studio and runs the nearby Nunnington Pottery and Arts. Pamela aims is translate the dynamism and sensitivity for which she was known in her former career as a musician, into ‘visual music’ in clay.
Pamela's development as a potter continues with a body of sculptural and functional work reflecting her improvisational and imaginative abilities in her former career as a distinguished musician. We will be showing a collection of wheel thrown, hand-painted porcelain and stoneware vases and jugs with her ‘water grass’ design, whimsical mugs and bowls decorated with playful shoals of fish or hand drawn doors and windows, each one unique.
Pamela also offers sculptural bowl forms, objects of contemplation with banded collars of jewel colours made with layers of slip, underglaze and oxide decoration.
Pamela has visited Brecon before several times as a musician but this will be her first ever exhibition in Wales.