Daughters of Earth
Images of work by Liz Mathews, lettering artist and studio potter.
In this online gallery, the Portfolio page gives an overview of the different kinds of work I do; from there the separate pages take you on a virtual gallery tour. Regular Work in focus posts listed below show individual works in detail, and in Gallery talks I explore some of the processes involved in making the work.
Words are the daughters of earth.
(Dr Johnson – Dictionary of the English Language)
Latest additions:
(Gallery talks, May 2012)
Reviews and responses to
exhibition at the British Library
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Writing Britain at the British Library
(Work in focus, March 2012)
My artist’s book Thames to Dunkirk
on exhibition at the British Library
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(Work in focus, March 2012)
My summer exhibition at the LCP
in North London
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(Work in focus, January 2012)
Winter Wild, from
Love & Freedom: Burns’ Year
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(Work in focus, December 2011)
New work in clay, handmade paper
and driftwood from the Thames
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(Work in focus, Autumn 2011)
Autumn journeys and
a winter exhibition
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(Work in focus, Autumn 2011)
Autumn journeys and
a winter exhibition
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(Work in focus, Autumn 2011)
Autumn journeys and
a winter exhibition
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(Work in focus, August 2011)
Taking books to Edinburgh
and other festivals
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(Work in focus, July 2011)
Summer evenings by the river
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(Gallery talks, June 2011)
A tour round my exhibition
Watermark
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(Work in focus, May 2011)
Mingling in the warmth of May
in Holland Park
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(Work in focus, April 2011)
Blossomy lengthening days,
and a cottage in a garden
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(Work in focus, March 2011)
A tale of spring, a new book
and an exhibition of new work
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(Work in focus, February 2011)
Spells for the bees and
the feast of St Valentine
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(Work in focus, January 2011)
Pots for midwinter and
Books of Hours
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(Work in focus, 22nd December)
Seasonal pots and wishes
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(Work in focus, 17th December)
(and the city too)
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(Digressions, 11th December)
Driftwood with text by
Vita Sackville-West,
and a soapbox
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(Work in focus, 2nd December)
A snow storm by
John Clare
In another land
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(Work in focus, 26th November)
Wordsworth and Patrick Moore
evoking the Northern Lights
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(Work in focus, 19th November)
Sweeping the leaves and catching
light in the orchard
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(Gallery talks, 10th November)
Thames to Dunkirk goes to
The British Library
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(Work in Focus, 28th October)
Dancing to the music
of the spheres
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(Work in Focus, 8th October)
Apples, blackberries
and leaves of grass
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(Work in Focus, 1st October)
A fountain on the heath,
and a sea breeze
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(Work in Focus, 23rd September)
Flowers and fruit for the
Autumn equinox
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(Work in Focus, 14th September)
Throwing on the wheel and
pots for special times
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A kingfisher and a little elephant
(Work in Focus, 7th September)
An artist’s book on
a different scale
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(Work in Focus, 27th August)
Pots to celebrate the last pleasures
of summer
(Work in Focus, 19th August)
A one-elephant book
celebrating seasonal
delights
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(Work in Focus, 13th August)
A new group of paperworks
including an artist’s book called
Stream
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(Work in Focus, 6th August)
Inspiring colour poems from
the films of Margaret Tait
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(Work in Focus, 30th July 2010)
Summer pots and singing to the bees
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(Work in Focus, 23rd July)
A one-elephant artist’s book with a rivery text from Geoffrey Grigson’s Shell Country Alphabet
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(Gallery talks, 16th July )
About creativity, making art, and secrets
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(Work in Focus, 8th July)
Making plates and celebrating John Clare’s poetry
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(Work in Focus, 2nd July)
A one-elephant artist’s book with a meteoric text by Giovanni Pascoli translated by EJ Scovell
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(Work in Focus, 25th June)
A spell for a heatwave with text by M. Minnaert
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(Gallery Talks, 25th June)
Talking about our perspective on the past, making art collectively, and the next stage of The Dunkirk Project
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(Work in Focus, 17th June)
Strawberry bowls, wine jugs and flowers everywhere
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(Work in Focus, 9th June)
An update on the progress of my interactive online installation, The Dunkirk Project
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(Work in Focus, 30th May)
A little elephant book with a reckless prediction for the weekend, which perhaps I will regret making
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(Work in Focus, on 24th May)
About the making of Thames to Dunkirk and The Dunkirk Project
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(Work in Focus on 15th May)
Introducing my online interactive installation, live online from 27th May to 4th June 2010, the 70th anniversary of the Evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940
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Clay pages and balancing gravity
(Gallery Talks on 7th May)
About making banners and building layered works from small parts
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(Work in Focus on 7th May)
Bluebells and seasonal pots
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(Work in Focus, 26th April)
A one elephant artist’s book
with text and cloud formation
by John Constable
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(Gallery talks, 12th April)
The sky a bowl of stars
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(Gallery talks on 30th March)
Past and future meet in
poetry of witness from
Kathleen Raine
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(Work in Focus on 30th March)
One of the first of my new
One Elephant artist’s books, torn
from a single sheet of handmade paper
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(Work in Focus, 19th March)
Seasonal pots
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(Gallery talks on 8th March)
About the art of lettering on clay
- why, where and how
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(Work in Focus on 2nd March 2010)
Throwing pots, the hidden sphere,
and the magic of the kiln
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