Crafts CouncilDirectoryLiz Mathews at Potters' Yardstudio potter and lettering artistLondon, EnglandCeramicsLetteringMixed mediaWebsiteE-mailAboutInfoNewsI work with words in clay and handmade paper, as well as Thames driftwood and other found materials, making celebratory pots, artist’s books, paperworks, wall-hangings and sculpture: physical poetry in a material world. I also make meticulous miniature low-relief sculptures and architectural studies in clay, including house portraits to commission. I set up my first studio in London in 1986, with the writer and poet Frances Bingham.Focus:Lettering in many media, and architectural sculpture in low reliefCommissions:Available for commissionsPotters’ Yard House PortraitsOngoingMeticulous miniature house portraits in clay by Liz Mathews, with a gallery of her favourite subjects, an exhibition preview and details on commissioning.Daughters of EarthOngoingA gallery-blog of works in clay and paper by Liz Mathews, including news of work in progress, detailed articles on techniques and processes, and some arcane digressions.The Dunkirk Project: Nine days in May 1940OngoingAn interactive installation and resource centred on Liz’s monumental artist’s book Thames to Dunkirk, which opens to a free-standing paper sculpture 17m long, and is now the largest book in the British Library. The Dunkirk Project welcomes contributions and responses exploring its theme of the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, and runs a daily newsreel unfolding the story of one semi-mythic event shared by over 300,000 people.AboutI work with words in clay and handmade paper, as well as Thames driftwood and other found materials, making celebratory pots, artist’s books, paperworks, wall-hangings and sculpture: physical poetry in a material world. I also make meticulous miniature low-relief sculptures and architectural studies in clay, including house portraits to commission. I set up my first studio in London in 1986, with the writer and poet Frances Bingham.InfoFocus:Lettering in many media, and architectural sculpture in low reliefCommissions:Available for commissionsNewsPotters’ Yard House PortraitsOngoingMeticulous miniature house portraits in clay by Liz Mathews, with a gallery of her favourite subjects, an exhibition preview and details on commissioning.Daughters of EarthOngoingA gallery-blog of works in clay and paper by Liz Mathews, including news of work in progress, detailed articles on techniques and processes, and some arcane digressions.The Dunkirk Project: Nine days in May 1940OngoingAn interactive installation and resource centred on Liz’s monumental artist’s book Thames to Dunkirk, which opens to a free-standing paper sculpture 17m long, and is now the largest book in the British Library. The Dunkirk Project welcomes contributions and responses exploring its theme of the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, and runs a daily newsreel unfolding the story of one semi-mythic event shared by over 300,000 people.WebsiteE-mailProjectBeloved houses (house portraits in clay)ProjectVessels containing volumesProjectWaterfalls and harvestsProjectMeadow pots
Potters’ Yard House PortraitsOngoingMeticulous miniature house portraits in clay by Liz Mathews, with a gallery of her favourite subjects, an exhibition preview and details on commissioning.
Daughters of EarthOngoingA gallery-blog of works in clay and paper by Liz Mathews, including news of work in progress, detailed articles on techniques and processes, and some arcane digressions.
The Dunkirk Project: Nine days in May 1940OngoingAn interactive installation and resource centred on Liz’s monumental artist’s book Thames to Dunkirk, which opens to a free-standing paper sculpture 17m long, and is now the largest book in the British Library. The Dunkirk Project welcomes contributions and responses exploring its theme of the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, and runs a daily newsreel unfolding the story of one semi-mythic event shared by over 300,000 people.
Potters’ Yard House PortraitsOngoingMeticulous miniature house portraits in clay by Liz Mathews, with a gallery of her favourite subjects, an exhibition preview and details on commissioning.
Daughters of EarthOngoingA gallery-blog of works in clay and paper by Liz Mathews, including news of work in progress, detailed articles on techniques and processes, and some arcane digressions.
The Dunkirk Project: Nine days in May 1940OngoingAn interactive installation and resource centred on Liz’s monumental artist’s book Thames to Dunkirk, which opens to a free-standing paper sculpture 17m long, and is now the largest book in the British Library. The Dunkirk Project welcomes contributions and responses exploring its theme of the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, and runs a daily newsreel unfolding the story of one semi-mythic event shared by over 300,000 people.