Jon Barrett-Danes
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For Jonathan Barrett-Danes, ceramics is a tradition that spans six generations. Earliest records date back to the 1830’s in Hoo, Kent, with a family-owned pottery that made terracotta. A road in the town still honours the family name of Baker. Ownership of the business passed within the family from father to son, but Jon’s father was the first to break with tradition by leaving the family pottery, undertaking formal college training and subsequently entering the same industry, but as a designer.
Jon continued down the same path as his father, completing his degree in ceramics at Bristol Polytechnic in 1985, with a focus on thrown-ware and glaze development. The mainstay of his inspiration was derived from pages of the Wedgewood Creamware catalogues from the late 19th century. Coupled with this very classical approach, he found that the humorous fluidity of cartoon drawings provided a happy contrast.
Although Jon Barrett-Danes’ primary interest was the wheel thrown object, he has since been concentrating on developing hand built animal forms. The pig, in particular, provides an endless source of ideas. His animal forms, in many ways, still embody the same concern for form and profile that sustained him in his search for the ideal teapot. He feels that he has been able to transfer many of the elements that excited him in that development to his animals, endowing them with strength and humour.
Jonathan’s thrown ceramic sculptures are suitable for indoor and outdoor display.
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