Robin Welch: Ceramic Artist

Introduction by Christine Maltby with essays by Simon Olding and Vivienne Light.
Published September, 2002
ISBN 9780954162726
Paperback 22 pages, colour throughout
Designed by Sarah Jackson
Price: £6

This catalogue was published to coincide with an exhibition of Robin Welch's paintings and ceramics at Maltby Gallery, Winchester. Although Welch continues to live in Stradbroke, Suffolk, he has spent, and continues to spend, considerable time in different countries and locations abroad, including Australia. Time spent working out of the country gives his work a uniqueness and open-endedness, that shies away from the more contemporary concerns of many British potters. Welch's pots hover on the borders of functionality; they speak more of the heat and rough geology of land than of the cool, containment of contoured climes and forms. Each a tactile, visual presence, Welch's pots retain a closeness to their origin, to their place of conception.

To date, this is the only publication solely dedicated to this ceramic artist.