Juliet HOLLAND

Juliet began working with clay as a medium in the 1970s, first throwing pots and learning firing techniques, such as pit firing. But pots were an imperfect and limited medium for her expression, so she began creating ‘clay bodies’ that became her canvases. As she created these bodies, she would work in sand and stones, and then fire them in her kiln. Then she would apply layers of sand, paint, pastels, metallics and other materials. She would often scrape back a layer before applying the next elements, thus inferring erosion and the passage of time. This prolific period spanned the 1980s and 1990s.