Craig makes painterly ceramic vessels that evoke a feeling of landscape and place.
Peter Wray was trained as a painter, extending his practice into printmaking in the early 1970s, after being exposed to the richness and unique expressive power of the intaglio surface.
With his background in painting, and being largely self-taught as a printmaker, the integration of painterly methodology into the graphic process was a natural development, and it is this combination of approach which gives his work its distinctive style:- “prints about painting, and paintings about prints”.
‘I work with ceramics thrown on the wheel, creating three dimensional functional forms using a local stoneware clay. I then decorate using underglazes and gold lustre to create plants, flowers and wildlife designs to express my passion for the magical natural world in the place where I live in Cornwall and where I grew up on a farm in North Devon.’
‘The intention in my work is always to capture a moment in the process of change; to reflect both the physical and spiritual quality of ‘place‘; and to suggest equal importance in both the inside and the outside of all my forms.’
My main practice is painting, which, over quite a few years, has been in collaboration with my partner, Peter Wray. Our paintings reflects our shared response to the landscape, sea and weather of Penwith.
I am also a printmaker, most recently renewing my interest in lithography, a medium which I find most sympathetic to my love of drawing
Since coming to live in Penwith I have started to make paperclay vessels and to involve myself with Raku firings, which Peter and I carry out together.
Throughout the Spring, Summer and Autumn months, we run printmaking courses from our studio at Trewidden Garden.