Graham Watt is a local farmer and has had an interest in ceramics for the past 32 years.
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Whilst full time farming and raising four children with wife Lynne, making pots has always been an integral part of his life.
Although output is often minimal there is nearly always a pot in the process of being created.
While wheel throwing had some initial attraction, he quickly gravitated to pinching and coiling, with pinching being the dominant technique.Graham finds this process to be very meditative and being able to pinch pots to a very fine wall thickness adds to the tactile nature of the work. Graham finds the primal nature of the pit firing and the resultant earthy colours to be very satisfying.
While the pit firing technique can give rewarding results it is the form and its tactile nature that gives him the greatest pleasure.
In recent times some pots are not pit fired but instead fired to high bisque in an electric kiln and left plain with some textural finish thus drawing more emphasis to the form of the work.
Annie Joseph was always drawing. Her fascination with the art world began as a small child looking at AJ Johnson's illustrations of Ethel Turner's Seven Little Australians, Norman Lindsay's Magic Pudding, Tove Jannsen's Finn Family Moomintroll, EH Shephard's illustrations of AA Milne's Winnie The Pooh, Herge's Tin Tin, and many more.
Formal art and art history education began at Loreto Normanhurst with the indomitable Mother Evangeline Kendall. Annie did an Art major in her Education degree at CCAE, (now University of Canberra). Some years later, after teaching and babies, she returned to art making via watercolour workshops.
Annie's landscapes range from the wide plains and Lachlan River country of her ancestry and childhood at Condobolin to the hills and valleys of her life and home of the last 40 years in Lithgow. With her art making Annie tries to connect the joy of being in the landscapes she loves, with the joy of creativity, in her case via painting and drawing.
In the last five years Annie has been lucky enough to have painting holidays in Portugal, France, Ireland and Scotland and experience to wonderment of those landscapes.
The free 'Earth and Water' Exhibition will open at the Grenfell Art Gallery on Tuesday October 22 at 11am. Gallery opening times: Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm, Saturday 10am to 3pm, Sunday 10am to 2pm
