lives and works in
East Dorset, Dorset - West
years experience
25
concepts, ideas and themes
Jonathan Garratt concentrates on wood firing a locally dug clay (terracotta) for work ranging from unusual garden planters to slipware, decorative pots and garden art installations. Many of the influences derive from prehistoric pottery and other artefacts and from tribal arts.
processes and techniques
Ceramics
Installations
Environmental art
Sculpture
influences and aims
Grounding in thrown garden terracotta pots made in quantity. Interest in tribal arts eg West African textiles, music. Influence from prehistoric pottery, projectiles and tools. Sound, ecologically friendly business, refine own clay, woodfires, garden design, contemporary architecture, landscape design, interior design, interior gardens, roof gardens, London garden walls
career path
Qualifications:
1976 BA, Archaeology, Cantab
1973 Clare College Cambridge.Exhibition in French,German.
1968 Eton College.Studied ceramics under Gordon Baldwin.
1954 Born London.
Teaching Experience:
1999 Part-time Lecturer, Ceramics, Harrow Campus, University of Westminster, London
Areas of work:
Curating
Exhibiting
Lecturing
Journalism
Collections:
Miranda Richardson, London
John Ritblat, Sussex
Janice Blackburn, London
Lance Blackstone
Jeffrey Tolman, London
Arne Maynard, London
Noel Kingsbury, Hereford
Alan Titchmarsh
selected exhibitions
2005 Ceramic Art London at Royal College of Art
2005 London Open Squares Day, Fulham
2005 Quenington Sculpture Show
2004 East London Design Fair,Shoreditch Town Hall.
2004 Chelsea Crafts Fair,London. Awarded Adrian Sassoon Prize - Ceramics
2004 Designfront04,Southend
2004 Matthew Burt group show,Hindon, Wilts.
2004 Visit by RSA Fellows to the pottery.
2004 Slide talk,London Yellow Book/National Gardens Scheme,Cobham
2003 Quenington: Fresh Air
2003 Trannon Furniture/Joint Show
2003 Saltram House, Plymouth, Devon, N.T
2003 Devon Craft Guild "Groundcover"
2003 Chelsea Physic Garden
2003 Heifer Gallery, London
2003 Maureen Michaelson, Hampstead
2003 The Anvil, Basingstoke. Slide Lecture
2002 Slide Lecture, London Garden Show, Alexandra Palace
2002 Sensory Gardens, Lecture, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
2002 Private Garden, Barnes, London
2002 Hillier Arboretum
2002 Maureen Michaelson, Hampstead
2002 Urban Gardens, Olympia
2002 Lennox Gallery, Fulham
2002 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Chelsea Craft Fair
2002 TEGELEN, Holland/Rufford, Nottinghamshire, woodfired pots
2002 Maltby Gallery, Winchester
2002 Joanna Bird, London
2002 FEAST, Tableware Show, touring
2001 Back to Nature? Some of Us Never Left, Bournemouth University
2001 The Snake in the Garden, Slipware Projections Piece, touring
2001 Maureen Michaelson, Hampstead, installations, Garden Punctuation
2001 Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, zinc fumed discs
2001 Scottish Gallery, garden exhibition
2001 Fresh Air, sculpture exhibition, Old Rectory, Quenington, Gloucestershire
2001 Harold Hillier Arboretum, installations, Romsey, Hants
2000 A Moveable Feast, container gardening, Stansted Park, Chichester
2000 Maureen Michaelson, Hampstead, installations, Garden Punctuation
2000 Shadows on Stone, Sherborne, Frink, Harrison, Colonna etc, installation
2000 Harold Hillier Arboretum, Romsey, Hants, installation
1999 Gloves Off. A New Courage in British Gardening, Crafts Council
1999 The Shape of the Century, 100 years of sculpture in Britain, West India Avenue, Canary Wharf, London; Salisbury Cathedral Close
1999 Fresh Air, sculpture exhibition, Old Rectory, Quenington, Gloucestershire
1998 Salisbury Library
1998 In the Window: Contemporary Ceramics, Marshall Street, London
1998 Southern Craft Makers, curated by Margot Coatts, Eastleigh, Hampshire
1998 Garden Exhibition, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1997 Pottery in the Making, demonstration, Museum of Mankind, London
1995 Art in Action, demonstration, Oxford
1994 Studio Ceramics 1994, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Jonathan Garratt has specialised in making distinctive and unusual terracotta pots for gardens for nearly 30 years and currently enjoys a reputation as one of Britain’s foremost garden artists. His passion for plants informs many of the innovative designs available only from the pottery and he produces a wide selection of shapes for specific plant habits; grasses, trailing, succulents, bulbs, annuals, architectural etc. All the pots are made from local clay refined at the pottery and are fired exclusively with wood from the locality to produce subtle, natural colours on the finished work. Guaranteed frost proof to -20°C. 
