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Kate Reynolds grew up surrounded by art. Her father, sculptor Bernard Reynolds,
was a founding member of the Norwich 20 Group and taught at what is now
Suffolk New College in Ipswich; her mother, Gwynneth, painted figuratively
and later went on to co-author the book Benton End Remembered: Cedric Morris,
Arthur Lett-Haines and the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing.
‘There was always clay downstairs when my sisters and I were growing
up,’ remembers Kate. ‘Dad spent a lot of his time in the basement
of a Georgian house, which had a big workshop space, and I remember he was
always coming upstairs with his sculptor’s smock on. When we needed
something to play with my dad would go down into the workshop and dig out
some clay with his trowel.’
As a child Kate even modelled for her father’s portrait classes. She
was required to sit quietly on a platform and turn every fifteen minutes.
Not only did she earn extra pocket money, but those moments allowed her
to observe her father at work, something the twelve year old in her discovered
was ‘an enjoyable thing to do, to help him and to be involved in something
that was unique to me.’
Years later, when she entered art college, she would attend his classes.
‘It was strange but very illuminating seeing him in an environment
in which he was comfortable. There were things that he talked about in that
time that have definitely stayed with me and influenced me.’
Today, surrounded by ceramics – her own, and fellow artists’–
Kate is best known for her raku ware, in particular her green, flattened
busts with elegant, Romanesque profiles. But she started her art education
studying 3D Design in Brighton, which ultimately turned out to be a sound
choice, ‘particularly because I enjoy the design element of what I
do, working with ceramics. I did other materials there but there wasn’t
such an immediacy about working with wood or metal that you can get with
clay.’....
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