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Trained as an engineer, Ric has always found form important. From Greek and Roman urns to the Sydney Opera House, to freeway interchanges, the Eiffel Tower to the West Gate Bridge, to the Egyptian pyramids and Russell Hobs kettles, engineering has produced some wonders to look at. Ric is also aiming to capture elegance in simplicity.
Over the last twenty-five years as a full time studio potter, Ric has gradually moved from focusing solely on form to form/surface interaction. With a growing interest in crystal glazes, the challenge now is balancing the complex crystal formations, glaze flows and colour changes with the form of the pot.
His one-off pieces are a combination of the simplest ceramic form with an abstract decoration. Ric’s pots offer large abstractly decorated surface to the viewer. The impact is generated by the juxtaposition of the geometrically hard-edged pot under magically variable and flowing glazes.
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