A Customer Revue by Eddie Doherty

Golant - A Customer Revue by Eddie Doherty
The Troika pottery studio was set up in Cornwall in 1963 and specialised in two main ranges of ceramics, a smooth glazed range and a rougher textured style. Today, partly due to its numerous appearances on television programmes such as The Antiques Roadshow and Flog It! the rough textured pieces are enjoying something of a renaissance.

Artist, John Fiddes, has come up with his own timely selection of paintings based on the colours and style of this particular type of Troika pottery. In Golant, named I believe after the small Cornish village, John has accurately represented the colours and textures of this pottery. Using acrylics and mixed media he has given his artwork a similar rough hewn, earthy appeal, which the viewer simply wants to reach out and touch. The painting itself could be representative of a partial eclipse of the sun with the warmer colours represented in the larger orb and the moon circle in the distinctive bronze/brown colour so often featured in Troika. Alternatively one could look at it as a depiction of the Earth circling the sun, the smaller circle being “earthy” in colour.

However one looks at this painting and, indeed, at the others in the series, one cannot help but appreciate how the artist has used the themes of colour and texture to create an impressive, other-worldly collection.

View the Troika Collection here
http://www.picturetrail.com/
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