Temporary Exhibitions
Caroline Barnes Ceramics
Caroline is an established maker working in porcelain producing a range of buttons, brooches, coasters and framed tile collections. From a small studio in West Dorset, she creates decorative ceramics featuring transfer images of botanical and marine life inspired by the local coast, natural history collection, vintage prints and illustrations. With old printer’s trays full of tiles Caroline enjoys the process of compiling and composing these collections of ceramics, thinking carefully about how one image can react to the next.
Her work sometimes reflects the fragments and incomplete fossils and debris she collects from local beaches along the Jurassic Coast. The tiles are produced using a porcelain clay decorated with a white glaze. Images from drawings, prints and photographs are then applied in the form of a platinum and colour transfer decoration.
Caroline also works here at Dorset County Hospital as our Creative Health Specialist delivering activities such as printmaking, drawing, painting and working with nature. The benefits to patients are clear, helping people regain a sense of independence and control, socialising and of course creating at bedside or in small groups.
Caroline works within the Arts in Hospital Team and as well as delivering for patients she supports staff wellbeing workshops.
You can find more of Caroline’s work at her Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CBarnesCeramics
Or contact Caroline directly: [email protected] Instagram: carolinebarnesceramics
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