Fellow potter at Wobage, Jeremy Steward, describes Patia’s work:
Warm,
rich colours and strong forms of Patia’s domestic earthenware pots reflect her
motivation towards utility and the
pleasurable role that these pots play from kitchen to table. They
are raw glazed and once-fired to 1120 C. Not unlike the rural English
terracotta potters of earlier centuries. Patia’s creative response to living
and making evolves steadily and confidently. Her deft lightness of touch on the
wheel, and the influence of the natural world surrounding her home and
workshop, brings a contemporary edge to a range of pots which also asserts a
deep respect for tradition.
Perhaps her
most championed forms are her range of plates and bakers, many mould- made,
others thrown and altered. Patia’s earthenware range is decorated predominantly
before construction, her studio often filled with racks of beautifully slipped
slabs of clay: an ever expanding vocabulary; layer upon layer of pours, drips,
trails, featherings and brushmarks.
This work is intense, spontaneous, often rapidly executed. Yet in other
ways, it is very carefully considered and composed in response to the moment of
process, new ideas or to previous experience of fired composition. Once fired,
the slips and glaze are transformed into gloss three dimensional paintings.
Each dish undeniably an individual; carefully designed and deftly finished,
ergonomically satisfying and earning its place on the kitchen table or in the
oven. Each pot magnificent, as a canvass in its own right.
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