Saturday Evening Art Gallery — Kitty Shepherd

Kitty Shepherd (1960-) is an internationally recognized British studio potter and ceramic artist known for her bold use of color with slip (liquid clay mixture that has been tinted with metal oxides to create vibrant colors).

Her studios located in Granada, Spain, Shepherd describes the natural world and popular iconography in a way that is totally unique in the ceramic discipline.

Fueled by a global culture, Shepherd is increasingly focused on the tracking down of things and on the attachment of emotions to these objects.

Within her discipline she has become a collector of all kinds of objects and material.

Her ideas come to life in her work to form interesting connections between familiar iconic images.

The result is a form of art as play, involving the reframing of objects within a world of attention and manipulation of context; a context standing in a metaphorical relation to the world of everyday life.

“I believe that many of the objects we are attracted to today have been with us all of our lives,” Shepherd shares.

“I continually ask myself what are my favorite things and also the following questions: Why these objects? What power do they hold for me? What meaning? What memories do they conjure up? What emotions? And most importantly, what stories do I tell myself about them and through them?”