Peter Arscott

Peter Arscott is a painter and ceramicist who uses either grogged porcelain or stoneware fired to nearly thirteen hundred degrees.

He makes things  by hand, each piece a unique one-off since he does not make things twice, nor is he strictly interested in function – he sees the pot or vase as a form you can play with. Some of Peter’s pieces have a singular lop-sided stance; improvisation takes place either in cutting out the rolled clay shapes, or later when painting oxides onto their surfaces. His approach to clay is that of a painter’s, and the forms he arrives at often work as paintings or sculptures.