Ama Menec Sculptor Home Page

Close-up of 'Dreaming' Figurative Ceramic Garden Sculpture by Ama Menec. Two Neolithic Egyptian Nile Goddess figurative ceramic sculptures by Ama Menec.
My sculptures reflect a 25 year fascination with our earliest pre-history combined with a love of the sea and marine creatures, Archaic Greek stone sculpture, the marking, corrosion and weathering of artefacts over time, and an appreciation of the fuller female form. These themes are often woven together into whimsical sculptures, sometimes functional and sometimes designed purely to delight the eye. I hope to widen the appreciation of archaic sculptures of women by re-interpreting them for the modern world. I am also influenced by early 20th century stone carving, particularly Art Deco, the qualities of line and use of negative spaces, but coupled with the colour only really possible in 3D with ceramics.

I have been working in Ceramics since the late 70's, and have been sculpting at Coombe Park, in the beautiful South Hams part of Devon since 2001. I have had a varied ceramics career including time spent as potters assistant to Rupert Andrews, and a production thrower for David White. I gained my Ceramics B.A. from the University of Derby in 1996, and, as well as full-time sculpting, am also engaged in ceramics teaching and demonstrating. For more on my courses, and of future apprenticeships, please see my pottery and sculpture classes web page.

All my sculptures are made from a combination of wheel throwing, slab-forming, coiling, carving, press-moulding and hand modelling using Earthstone clay, crank, terracotta or my own paperclay mix. They are glazed using mostly stoneware glazes which are immensely variable, and so ensure that no two sculptures are ever the same. I also rarely use the same combination of glazes and oxides on any two pieces. Because of this, the images on this website are to be seen as a guide only, and if you are interested in buying a specific sculpture, contact me and I shall email you jpeg pictures of the latest sculptures I have of that type in the studio, should the sculpture featured on my website happen to be sold. I can also glaze a sculpture for you with any of the glazes shown, if you have a particular preference of colour and texture.

Detail of a ceramic Figurative Sculpture of Hypnia Wall Hanging with lichen glaze by Ama Menec. Pegasus ceramic wall plaque detail with lichen glaze effect.

Forthcoming 2008 Exhibitions

	Archaeology 08, British Museum, Great Russell St, London, 9th - 10th Feb.
	Guest Artist at Potters, Perry rd, Bristol, 8th March - 24th April.
	A Celebration of Women, Birdwood House, Totnes, Devon, 9th - 15th March.
	Borde Hill Garden Sculpture Trail, Haywards Heath, West Sussex 26th April - 28th May.
	Mythic Garden Sculpture Park, Near Chagford, Devon, 3rd May - 28th September.
	Savill Gardens, Windsor Great Park, Wick Lane, Englefield Green, Surrey, 31st May - 6th July.
	The Great Create Festival of the Arts, Greenway National Trust, Greenway Road, Near Brixham, Galmpton, Devon, 4th June - 6th July.
	Henley Festival, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, 9th - 13th July .
	Midwinter Show, Birdwood House, High Street, Totnes, Devon, 13th - 24th December.

Studio Address: Unit 2, Coombe Park, Ashprington,
Totnes, Devon, UK, TQ9 7DY. Mobile:(+44) 07943 803551

Studio open to the public 11am - 6pm, Monday to Saturday.
Please phone if making a special journey.

Coome Park pottery and sculpture studio, in the beautiful South Hams, welcomes visitors and is open to the public Monday to Saturday 11am to 6pm. My display area at Coombe Park, shared with potter Lea Phillips.