[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 15px 0px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_custom_headline level=”h2″ looks_like=”h3″ accent=”true” class=”cs-ta-center mtn”]~About Me~[/x_custom_headline][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 10px 0px 45px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]I grew up in the Dorset countryside surrounded by animals, including cows, sheep, my pony, dogs, chickens, hamsters and even tame pigeons. I was seven when I started collecting clay in the ploughed fields surrounding our home. I began sculpting the animals around me, unfortunately these little pieces fell apart very quickly.
I remember the shepherd skinning a lamb, and my mother teaching me how to skin a rabbit, I would collect skulls and dried stoats from the gamekeepers gibbet, these things sparked an interest in anatomy and comparative anatomy which informs my work today.[/cs_text][/cs_column][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”rounded” src=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/PIPPA-HILL-1.jpg” alt=”” link=”false” href=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/PIPPA-HILL 1.jpg” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=””][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”rounded” src=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_0118-800×1200.jpg” alt=”” link=”true” href=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_0118-800×1200.jpg” title=”” target=”blank” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” class=”about-me-lightbox”][/cs_column][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]I left school at seventeen and drifted through a range of short term jobs, until I bought a kiln and small potter’s wheel and began making pots at home. I started selling at small craft shows and very, very quickly things started to pick up.
For thirteen years, from 1985, I made pots with villages; whilst they were commercial and sold extremely well at the big craft shows, I gradually began to hate them. Eventually I decided I needed a change of direction. In 2002 I moved to Charlton Horethorne and began sculpting ceramic animals for a living.[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 20px 0px 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”rounded” src=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DSC01405-1200×798.jpg” alt=”” link=”true” href=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DSC01405-1200×798.jpg” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” class=”about-me-lightbox”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 10px 0px 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]I draw on my previous experiences with animals, tacking up my pony, milking cows, skinning rabbits, remembering the feel and the smell of them. I also spend time watching my pets, trying to record in my head their expressions and attitudes.
In 2005 I started teaching [x_button shape=”square” size=”mini” float=”none” href=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/classes/” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover”]Ceramic Classes[/x_button] in my studio, the classes are great fun and the students have the opportunity to exhibit, and sell, their work during Dorset, and Somerset, Art Weeks open studio events.[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]Recently I have begun to get my sculptures cast in bronze resin; this allows me to make pieces which would be impossible in fired clay. These are also more affordable than my handmade ceramics.
I will continue making work in bronze resin. This will allow me to spend time making some of the humorous work I have been experimenting with recently and also to have a go at the long list of disparate things I have wanted to make for ages.
I live in Charlton Horethorne with my husband, nine cats and a dog.
My work is for sale from this website, in galleries, exhibitions and at my home during Dorset and Somerset Art Weeks.[/cs_text][/cs_column][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”rounded” src=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_0123-800×1200.jpg” alt=”” link=”true” href=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_0123-800×1200.jpg” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” class=”about-me-lightbox”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 15px 0px 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”rounded” src=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DSC01411-1200×798.jpg” alt=”” link=”true” href=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DSC01411-1200×798.jpg” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” class=”about-me-lightbox”][cs_text]All my ceramic work is made in stoneware clay, coloured with slips, glazes and oxides. The work is fired in a gas kiln to cone 8, approx 1260⁰ C.
I am happy to take [x_button shape=”square” size=”mini” float=”none” href=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/commissions/” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover”]Commissions[/x_button] as long as I have good photos, these can be done in ceramic, bronze resin or foundry bronze[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 10px 0px 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”] [/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”rounded” src=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_0124-1200×800.jpg” alt=”” link=”true” href=”https://pippahillsculpture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_0124-1200×800.jpg” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”” class=”about-me-lightbox”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text][lightbox selector=”.about-me-lightbox” deeplink=”true” opacity=”0.875″ prev_scale=”0.75″ prev_opacity=”0.75″ next_scale=”0.75″ next_opacity=”0.75″ orientation=”horizontal” thumbnails=”true”][/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][/cs_content]