Nexus is very pleased to welcome PARTINGTON’S POTS as our first exhibitor in the Nook!
David PartingtonDavid Partington is a northwest based potter, specialising in hand thrown domestic ware. These working drawings are taken from his sketchbooks and have been used in the studio to help develop shape and form.
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The potter’s arms grow from his muscled cuffs
and funnel the risen spinning mud wall.
(Unearthed from the slab)
He gives his scholars the slip
and escapes to a shape waiting
behind his pupils. Here, under
the glass blue light, paint last
mixed, coats brushes, soaks
canvas stretched for colour,
strokes skin flattened for shade.
Here paint bleeds from ladders,
smears palettes, butters spatula,
oozes tubes. Nearby wells hoard
cores of primitive, similar oils
drilled for motion and slab.
David Partington, baker and
midwife slams and slaps life
into the wet nurse clay and
class with the waking shape
breath of day and creation.
On his desk bench and bazaar stall of
casbah statues, cast in relief with lustre,
studio dummies, structure and people,
stencil and template, eccentric, skeleton
figures. Burning learners prove a baking tray
of confection carried aloft, into the oven of
this master’s passion and teaching.
Bernard Michael
