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From Hartland on the wild Atlantic North Devon coast, High Sea is made up of four artists linked by blood and clan: Designer-maker Paul Anderson, Fine Artist Rose Anderson and Ceramists, Jez Anderson and Pop Wilkinson who work collaboratively under the name Popalini & Jezando. Within the group you’ll find strongly individual takes on texture and aesthetics being juxtaposed with an uncanny degree of familial rapport.

Popalini and Jezando make functional yet delicate wheel-thrown pots often glazed with white tin and erratic flashes of copper. They are influenced by both the traditional humble, bellied pots of North Devon and the subtle understated forms they admired whilst studying in Japan.

Popalini and Jezando make functional yet delicate wheel-thrown pots often glazed with white tin and erratic flashes of copper. They are influenced by both the traditional humble, bellied pots of North Devon and the subtle understated forms they admired whilst studying in Japan. | Paul Anderson; “So now, having spent years making really hefty figurative Daybeds and Tables out of relic oak beams and boards, and being primitive at all costs, I find my style is turning quieter and more oriental. It’s partly because a number of my chief fascinations - visible repair, asymmetry, imperfection and so on - fit so well there." | Rose Anderson, whose halcyon paintings have been commissioned for public spaces, is currently creating plant-form images by cutting and arranging delicate shapes in ingenious ways. The results are vital and playful - unique, evocative patterns that are both brilliant and beguiling.
Paul Anderson - Minoans (blue finial) Paul Anderson’s idiosyncratic oak artefacts have been commissioned by influential designers and stylists for many years - his huge figurative Daybeds, Tables, small cupboards and extreme fruit dishes all reveal an infectious preference for primitive construction, weathered and imperfect surfaces, and visible repairs.
Rose Anderson, whose halcyon paintings have been commissioned for public spaces, is currently creating plant-form images by cutting and arranging delicate shapes in ingenious ways. The results are vital and playful - unique, evocative patterns that are both brilliant and beguiling.
Rose Anderson
Paul Anderson, Pink Cake
Paul Anderson’s 'Throne One' In this seat, details such as the two very pronounced repairs made to the delicate back panel, teeth marks left by the original chainsawing on some edges, and the ends of pegs left proud of the surface: these are what draw you in if you have that kind of curiosity. And those two front uprights left long and adrift, looked nicely implausible on paper, then risky in reality, dynamic and kind of vulnerable at the same time. It’s where I seem to have got to.”

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