Earlier this term I wrote about two 6th form students who were clearly gifted and whose choice of career seemed almost predetermined by their natural ability. They were going to follow degree courses in architecture and stage design.
Today in Turnfurlong Infants School I found a third pupil who displayed extraordinary talent. This time she is six years old. Her ceramic rat is extraordinary. The shape of the muzzle, eye sockets and flattened forehead shows an ability to understand and model form with a maturity and mastery which is way beyond her age. I was able to talk to Leah and to confirm that it was her own work and that she worked from a picture. It is true that her grandmother is a potter and her father an architect but the modelling is her own and she described how she constructed it over a paper and bubble wrap body which burned off in the kiln - six years old.
To conclude this post it is interesting to note this other small ceramic sculture. This time from a sixth form student at the Royal Grammar School. He had made a set of small nudes all developed from an extruded clay tube. It makes a nice counterpoint.
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