Opening Reception - Bradley Keys: Mountain Peaks and Glacial Waters

Bradley Keys, "Landscape Pitcher," nd

stoneware, 7.5" x 6.5" x9.5"

Reception: Saturday, June 23, 2018, 2 to 5 pm, artist in attendance

Mountain Peaks and Glacial Waters at the Willock & Sax Gallery put on show the ceramic consequences of Bradley Keys’ meditations on locations of beauty and nostalgia.

Bradley Keys started off with a degree in Biology, which has informed his ceramic production since graduating from art school in 1994. His work has always examined the natural world interspersed with built environments. His elevator storage jars sit gently beside vessels that speak to rivers and mountain peaks. Trout migrate across platter surfaces filled with streambed references.

Malcolm Andrews, in his book Landscape and Western Art, talks of how "we privately respond both to our natural environment and to pictures of that environment". With a subtle hand, Keys offers work that allows investigations into the ways we know, take in, and are affected by our environment. He is inspired by the elements of the world around him and reconstructs these aspects through his chosen ceramic processes.