Andrea Gill
Headress
Description/
The scale of her vases gives Gill room to explore color, shape and pattern. Her devotion to surface patterning has also proven to be an addiction that satisfies her love of stylized image and her firmly positive response to the word DECORATIVE. In the motifs of my overlaid figure/ground surfaces, I suspect I am often exploring my subconscious. The sources for the motifs range from my garden to doodles to texts of historical ornament, such as Owen Jones’ Grammar of Ornament. Ceramics is the ideal media to combine surface color and three-dimensional form. There is the affirmation of historic precedence of the painted pot, and the possibilities of current clay and glaze technology to support my vision.
Glazed ceramic.

Andrea Gill
designer
Date/
1981
Material/
Ceramic
Dimension/
8.0 x 21.5 x 8.0 cm (3.1 x 8.5 x 3.1 in)
Heritage/
USA
Ships from/
USA