Mandy Long

‘Flyer’ (Jermaine Defoe) Reserve: £200.00

Unframed Ceramic sculptures

Mandy completed a BTec at Harrogate Collage in 2002 and now works from home in Leeds.

Exhibitions:  October 2005 Northern Potters / Oxo Gallery, South Bank, London / Northern Potters Exhibition / The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle.

I work in paper clay and most of my pieces are raku fired.  Paper clay is light when fired and before firing allows the sculptor a lot of flexibility, therefore ideally suited to the kind of work I produce. Inspiration comes from the ‘beautiful game’-football. My love of the game has grown with my sons, watching them play at grassroots level and sharing their enthusiasm for the professional game. There is a charge of passion in the players’ movement and expressions, athleticism, energy, and electric spontaneity which all combine in the game.  I try to capture something of that in my sculptures.