Collection: Peter Bodenham : Ceramic Artist : St Dogmaels

Peter lives near Cardigan in West Wales, where he runs St.Dogmaels Pottery. In 2011 he was the Gold medal winner for craft at the National Eisteddfod. Underpinning Peter’s ceramic work is a research based practice exploring his locality, sense of place and the materiality of clay and glaze. 

The ceramic wall vessels, shelves and pots were made in response to his local beach environment and the flotsam & jetsam found along the shoreline. His work  playfully explores the tension between function, utility and fine art practice. Peter’s creative practice flows between undertaking beach cleans, studying the history, geology, botany, ecology of the coastal environment and then making ceramic utilitarian pots and sculptural vessels in response to his home environment. The use of local clays, motifs, gestural marks brushed or scratched into the surface of the pots can be seen as direct traces of his phenomenological experience of a site and place. The ceramic vessels represent both the beauty and pernicious nature of ocean plastic we find along our shores through the language of abstraction and clay.