CHRIS BROCK POTTERY

SINCE MOVING TO OJAI, CALIFORNIA IN 2013 BROCK HAS BEEN WORKING AND DEVELOPING A COLLECTION  OF UNIQUE CERAMICS.

INITIALLY INFLUENCED BY SIMPLE DECO SHAPES THE WORK DEVELOPED OVER TIME TO INCLUDE SUBTLE REFERENCES TO ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN CIVILIZATIONS AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN POTTERY.

WE CAN DETECT IN THE SHAPES AND GLAZES ELEMENTS OF ETRUSCAN, EGYPTIAN AND EARLY CALIFORNIAN DESIGNS.

THE PIECES HAVE AN ALMOST CEREMONIAL PRESENCE AND WOULD BE AT HOME ON AN ANCIENT ALTAR BUT THEY ARE SURPRISINGLY COMFORTABLE IN A CONTEMPORARY SETTING AND HAVE BEEN SOUGHT OUT BY PROMINENT COLLECTORS AND DEALERS WORLDWIDE.

THE TEXTURES, GLAZES AND ENCRUSTED PATINAS SUGGEST THE PIECES HAVE LANGUISHED FOR CENTURIES IN SUBTERRANEAN RUINS OR SHIP WRECKS.

THERE IS A DELIBERATE RAWNESS WHICH CONTRASTS THE USUAL REFINEMENT EXPECTED OF CLASSIC CERAMICS, GIVING THEM A DISTINCTLY MODERN FEEL IN THEIR STURDY MASS AND ECCENTRIC SHAPES.

DUE TO THE COMPLEX GLAZING AND FIRING PROCESS PRODUCTION OF THESE POTS IS LIMITED AND ONLY A SMALL SELECTION IS AVAILABLE ANNUALLY.