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Current works in progress & studio diary @lotti_v_closs

On the other side of my studio are some new pieces in ceramic developing (everything grows in tandem here, I certainly don't work in a linear fashion ! 🌀) Unfired WIP ..kiln gods be kind 🔥
I've been focusing on a both playful and technical R&D period this year, following both maddening and giddy rabbit holes - straining to see where they meet, feeling forward to their converging points - and balancing technical challenges (ceramics
Ceramic trials coming together in the studio.. A relief to have made something I don't want to immediately recycle and allow space to grow.. feeling like the process has got legs too 🦵🦵 (Blue 'sheep's poo balloon' addition was a fun little slip t
Material experiments for the notion & process of Scrambling & Tumultuous Movement. Mixed up, reassembled information creating something new, and as a way of forward motion slowed but informed by backward steps.
Slugging through the cold grey days towards the sprouts of the new ☁️🌞🌱 January studio thoughts in progress
WIP Detail.. I don't often paint to create a painting, even though I enjoy the process, I find it harder to work 2D spontaneously through to a balanced completion. I often dismiss the image as a work in itself and just use partial elements as a depa
Excited to be part of this smashing line up 🔥 Opening this Friday! Bankley Open 2022 + Open Studios As part of Bankley’s continued 30 year celebrations, we present an exhibition from 20 artists, selected through our annual open call. On the
A few ethereal shots of some alabaster carvings i made at the start of the year commissioned for @thefallbride 's beautiful looking new store in London. I made six of these organic water-worn-coral inspired pieces, used as part of their garment disp
Currently convalescing from a bunch of surgeries and hospital visits, the last being a fairly dramatic and unscheduled visit 🤢 All ok just bed bound for the moment and certainly on the mend, double thankfully as I am imminently due to be married!
Managed to make it to the very last show at @1thoresbystreet 'Not Happy' 😢 it was bittersweet to see this special space once again, looking at its most beautiful and full of life and love. It was a privilege to have this place as a studio and home t
Motley Gnomon Ceramic & Chalk Pastel 2022 I'll be showing this new wall piece as well as a couple of chosen pieces from my 2021 solo show Troupe, alongside a collection of wonderful artists in Thought Forms @psmirabel curated by @linda_hemmersba
Studio workbench landscape: things in progress / physical thinking 🕳️🌀☄️
Slumping in the sun 🌞 New ceramic sculpture in progress (getting heftier by the day!) commissioned for a clever friends' arts council funded social arts project (tba) 🧡
🇺🇦 For sale : all proceeds will go to Care International providing emergency relief in Ukraine 🇺🇦 Untitled (Troupe sketch) : Chalk on paper, A5, £70 + P&P Amalgamate 4 : Brass, soapstone, polymer clay, 9 x 12 x 4cm, £160 + P&amp
Shadow distortion with a long awaited sunshine hit ✅💭🌞
A commission coming together - I carved six alabaster stones inspired by a combination of water worn beach pebbles and coral. It's been great working with stone again, I forgot how much transformation it goes through in the process! A little more fin
🔑✨ Sooo excited to finally have a space of my own in the wonderful @paradiseworks_ 🥳 it's been 2 years since having a proper studio, looking very much forward to getting settled in 🙌
Some surface details of Troupe before install 🔎🪄
Same goes with these three, but here they are together in the gallery & some closeups 🏴 Viewfinder, Charcoal & Chalk on paper, A3, 2021 Subject (Feeder), Charcoal & Chalk on paper, A3, 2021 Silhouettes, Charcoal on paper, A3, 2021
I've posted this guy before but thought I'd finish the Troupe series as in situ, still time to see the show @lakesidearts til 9th Jan 🐸 Troupe XI (Onwards! Crocodile Clown) Glazed Ceramic 18X26X12CM Approx 'In this recent body of work Closs uses
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TROUPE 11.2021 - 01.2022