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Melanie Guy The highlighted area on the map will help those of you who may wish to make a studio visit or want to patronise a craftsman from a specific locality. Please e-mail Melanie Guy to make an appointment.    = enlarged & different views  = add this piece to ideas basket  = view this maker's portfolio     10 piece(s) found:  Wall Hangings Price: £1000.00 Clear Honey Dress Ring Price: £375.00 Black Hole. Price: £900.00 Offering Bowl Price: £450.00 Graceful Spoon Price: £160.00 Landscape Dishes Price: £250.00   Melanie Guy   Melanie taught Art and Design and was a Head of Department for many years before focusing her own work on metals. Now a maker, she exhibits extensively in the South of England and had several solo exhibitions around the South West during 2000/2001.   Date of Birth:       Associations:   Awards: Most notable, in metals, to date: Award and a commission to produce a Series of Trophies for Business Link, Plymouth; Trophies for Xerox, Mike Smith Award and a commissioned Design for Inter-active artwork for Devon Artists in Schools' Initiative. Also takes commissions for design work, for local councils and in the public artsphere.   Commissions:   Education: 2004 Granted fellowship of the Society of Designer Craftsmen 2002 Invited member of Plymouth Society of Artists 2001 & 2002 Short courses in Silversmithing, Guildhall University, London 1998 – 1999 Top-up Degree Year – Plymouth College of Art and Design – BA (Hons) APPLIED ARTS 1996 – 1998 HND in Design Metals - Plymouth College of Art and Design 1968 – 1971 Swansea College of Education - CERT. ED. Swansea College of Art – DIPLOMA IN ART & DES - Ceramics - CREDIT   Group Exhibitions: Group exhibitions include New Designers 1998 & 1999; Affordable Art Fair 2000; 'Genius In the Genes', Oxford 2000; Mall Galleries - Society of Designer Craftsmen's Annual Exhibitions 2000-04; 'Cornish Makers 2003', Beatrice Royal Galleries, Eastleigh; gallery schomberg, Colchester 2003; Rye Art Gallery 2004; Dartington Cider Press Centre, Devon 2003 and other galleries in the SW.   Solo Exhibitions:   Travel: Nationally, Yes   Internationally, Yes   Press Quotes: Quote from Inside Cornwall,June 2003 "…beautiful reflective hand-beaten pewter work" "…I got hooked on pewter…its sensuous qualities."   Maker's Statement: Commissions, by negotiation, initial discussion, sketches of ideas and my own sketches of proposals are ways of progressing commissioned work. Usually stage payments or deposit paid, depending on value and the source of the commission.   Commissioning Procedure I aim to give my work a sculptural presence with simple visual profile, each form standing as a strong and independent statement. My objects have been said to have 'a fitness for purpose', whatever the intention. I may use various combinations of metals, utilising my interest in the surface texture, subtle colour and tonal variation of the material. I enjoy the quality of 'the mark', sometimes incidental, sometimes deliberate and have made many photographic observations of the earth's textures, which inform this interest (Saltmill Park - public art project and West Country generally). The marks made on my pewter vessels are a direct result of the hand-raising process, honest and unpretentious and of functional derivation, yet the tactile quality of these marks and the final finish, are sensuous and enticing, making the pieces a pleasure to handle and to use. Pricing Policy Now making atmospheric panels in pewter, produced by pressing and patination and drawing - stimulated by 'less is more' observation of landscape and the elements. Vessels are made of sheet pewter, usually lead-free, with prices starting at £60; although pieces can also be produced in silver, prices on request. Pricing of raised ware relates to the size, the gauge of material and to the height and shape of the raised vessel. Sculptural work is in bronze, sometimes polished or textured finish. Some work in anodised aluminium. Prepared to work in ferrous or non-ferrous metals and in combinations of materials, precious or non-precious. Prices of commissioned work to be agreed, according to design and production content   VAT Registered: No   1 2 next
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