New work

The Ceramic Art of Fred Croft
(An essay by Tom Wood, Painter)

Bowl form - plentiful, elegant, beauty of line, feminine, female, voluptuous, delicate, shape, form, voluminous, balanced.

Jug form - tall, poised, gestured, composed, masculine, powerful, strong, erect, flawed, confident, abrupt.

Erosion - removal, fissure, crack cover up, time, wearing out, eroded, rusted, decayed, painted over, made good, repaired, archaeology, misleading, rock face, bold line, small hole, broken journey, attrition, corrosion.

Journey - arrows, directions, maps, signs, memory, experience, people, conversation, words, forgettable, names, memorable, places, passage.

Mark - a presence, touching, scarring, a sense of leaving, a note, a calling card, moving on, making progress, a sense of being there

Trace - to be detected, found, suggestion, implication, evoke, discovered, interpreted, understood, a clue, misunderstood, infer.

Memory - forgotten, remembrance, mark on sand, a sign, a symbol, a signifier, a journey, a landscape half covered in snow, construe, recollection, reminiscence.