Peter Hayes
Peter bounced into the gallery one March morning on his way from his studio in Bath to a workshop he maintains in Udaipur India. He has always travelled and is fascinated with the way clay is worked into varied beautiful forms in remote parts of the world using very limited tools and technology. It is this purity of form following function that Peter strives to achieve in his own practice. He professes to working through the seat of his pants!
Constantly experimenting with just how far he can take a material or a technique before it rebels on him, brings a tension to his work that is often missing from the work of the more complacent artist. He often de-constructs in order to reconstruct and loves to learn from his failures.