Mollie Brotherton
MASTER ARTIST
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MEDIUMS: Ceramics
SPECIALTY: ✔ Generalist
Primarily as a ceramic artist interested in surface design, my mentorship group will be encouraged to explore the language of motif and design. Through interaction with their environment I will encourage them to construct a visual language which can be used in multiple ways to create rich and structured surfaces. I use many avenues of exploration from drawing to printing and collage, and I would like to encourage others to explore different mediums as as way into developing their own style.
I love to critique others, discover their passions and help find ways to develop their ideas into individual and unique bodies of work. My mentorship group will be expected to share their passion and be open to new perspectives. In return I will hopefully be able to help them find a clear and distinct voice for their work and open their eyes to other ways of seeing.
As an artist who has a wide technical knowledge within my field, social and digital platforms, stockists in the UK and France, my own gallery outlet here in France, a teaching profession etc, I also hope to be able to help emerging artists balance their work load, organise their time and be creative in how to turn their passion into a business.
Mollie’s EXPERTISE
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Specialty: ✔ Generalist
Technical:
Providing Critiques
Technique Demos
Teaching How to Self Critique
Supplies and tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend
Marketing:
Artist Statement & CV
Shows & Exhibits
Marketing & Branding
Social Media
Pricing Artwork
Approaching Galleries
Running Your Art Business the Day-to-Day
Studio Time Management
“Mastrius is a perfect balance of accountability, community and fun.
It feels like family. Family that makes you a better you.”
~ Elizabeth, Emerging Artist
MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
The medium of clay provides the perfect material in which to express my thoughts and ideas about the wonder of the wildness around us. My studio is buried deep in the rural landscape of the Gers, in SW France, where I have lived and worked for nearly 20 years. The landscape is forever changing with the passage of man, agriculture and the inevitable changing of the seasons. It is this that creates a rich tapestry of flora that I find so enchanting. My work hopefully expresses theses ideas of richness, layering and the depth of nature’s beauty.
Every piece is hand built using a variety of techniques but slab building is core. I impress rolled clay with plants, found objects and blocks that I carve by hand. I use plants, such as Cow-parsley and Honesty because I am drawn to their architectural qualities as well as the clear graphic line they create, which contrasts with the washes of colour. Colours are applied in many layers using slip, liquid wax and paper resist and then scrafitto and oxides to enhance textures and plant forms. All my work is made from a white grogged stoneware and fired to 1260°c in an electric kiln.
The “square” shapes are inspired by blocks of fields, standing stones and Neolithic tools but also provide a simple form on which I can “paint”. They are solid, sturdy and reliable and look great in groups or just alone holding an informal bunch of flowers.
The “Goblets” and “Ink pots” are a celebration of the Earth’s harvest. Round, generous and comforting, they are made to be held in the hand or to stand tall and display bunches of wild-flowers, collections of twigs or single branches of blossom.
The “Totems” are a range that I hand built in response to the changing seasons. The fertility, the wisdom and the peace that is found in the landscape is something I hope to embody in these upright, silent pieces. Arms outstretched and feet firmly planted, they are also vessels and look monumental full of the harvest of the hedgerow.
