Description
Studio Pottery Vase Bernard Rooke
Bernard studied at the Ipswich School of Art 1955-1959, for his NDD in painting and lithography, before moving on to the Goldsmiths College, London for a year’s study in printmaking and ceramics. It was at Goldsmiths’ that he decided to take up pottery and in 1960 he set up his workshop in Forest Hill, London, sharing the premises with Alan Wallwork (1931-2019). His early pieces were fashioned by hand using coils and blocks and Rooke found that whereas a work might not find a market as a piece of sculpture, if made into a lamp base it was more readily acceptable to the public. His lamp bases were popular and proved a mainstay until the present day. In 1963 the pottery moved to larger premises in Greenwich, but ever in need of more space, in 1967 Bernard moved to a huge mill building at Swilland, near Ipswich. He married at Greennwich, London in 1963, Susan Robertson and Bernard’s son, Aaron, now manages production at the pottery, leaving Bernard to divide his time between potting, painting, making digital photo-collages, and making music.
This hand crafted textured stoneware vase measures approximately 15 x 8 x 14cm
A unique and unusual piece
