Don’t be afraid to dream
Nicky Darnborough, 2021
Porcelain
22 x 15 x 10 cm
The fox steals the child’s pink sandal in the night
Nicky Darnborough, 2021
Porcelain
20 x 18 x 12 cm
Nicky fashioned her keepsake jars after the Staffordshire portrait figures. By sculpting the figurines of her son and a fox carrying a sandal in a childlike, playful style, she exudes it with the innocence and wonder of childhood that continues to live on in the imagination. The pebbles are made of porcelain clay pressed with representations of ideas that are to be brought into the future, while some are acknowledged as shared memory and experience, but are left to stay in the past. As a family, the stories they keep matters in shaping their future.
Nicky Darborough is a ceramic artist. She handbuilds each piece, enjoying the process of pinching coiling and press moulding. It is important for her forms to reveal the process of making and the unexpected outcomes presented by the materials involved. With her background in the Fine Arts, Nicky uses these skills to draw with colorful glaze on the surfaces of her pots. She has exhibited at international craft fairs and presently has a body of work in the Plas-y-Weddw gallery.
