People with passion
This is a project about people who, like me have a passion. I have always been curious about what passions and interests others have.
I believe that people with passion are more likely to experience positive emotions and to better cope when failures or temporary adversities occur.
Passions stimulate the senses, trigger positive emotions, and give life direction. They make it more colourful and meaningful. A lack of passion leads to boredom, emptiness and even depression and destructive addictions.
Hana Louise Shahnavaz is a British-Iranian painter based in London, UK. Best known for her vibrant large-scale paintings that are characterised by an abundance of exquisite detail, her work explores the connection of the individual to the Whole.
www.hanashahnavaz.com
@hana.shahnavaz
Maya Borawska -Miniaturist
"I make miniatures to keep my inner child happy. I have built a tiny door with a tiny knocker, doorbell and doormat into the skirting board underneath our bookshelves in the living room. It gives me a feeling of inner warmth and magic", Maya says.
Maya has been fascinated by miniatures since childhood. She works in multiple media using a combination of techniques. In wood, polymer clays and fabrics, sculpting, using mini-carpentry and mini-crochet.
@things4gnomes
Sarah Coppard
Sarah fell in love with ceramics whilst living in Japan. Upon her return to London she sought out evening classes as an escape from her office job before embarking upon an HND programme in Ceramics and one year apprenticeship at North Street Potters in Clapham, London with a focus on production throwing.
Sarah makes both tableware and decorative ceramic pieces. Her non-functional work explores ideas of decay, the passing of time and a sense of place. She enjoys using organic additions, oxide powders and matte glazes to create subtle surfaces indicative of the marks and traces left by natural forces.
@sarah_coppard_
www.sarahcoppard.com
Bafrin Rashed
Bafrin was born into an artistic family in Kurdistan. She doesnt remember exactly when she started her journey into art. London was a good opportunity for her to develop her creativity, so she enrolled in an art course at Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College. There she succeeded in transitioning and mastering the use of oil paints.
After being offered the opportunity to become an art teacher for children in a primary school in Sulaimani, She returned to Kurdistan and started a sculpture course under the supervision of a well-known artist Chenar Nizar. She has also curated many exhibitions of student artwork.
In 2016,She returned to London and enrolled in a one-year sculpture course. In 2019, I participated in a new job as an art director for a short drama film. In September 2019, she participated in a joint exhibition in London called 'Enjoy Art' with six other artists.
@bafrinrashed
Francesca Silverton
"I love making with clay and and I am interested in shapes that tell stories. I teach maths with clay to help learners, and make ceramic sculptures that combine simple forms with glazed surfaces to show hidden forms and develop narratives in clay. I am interested in the shapes we do not see – topologies from mathematics, spaces in the soil, and hidden stories. My current sculptures are called Cornerstones after the foundation stones used in Roman buildings and arches. The cube is connected to a surface inspired by the microscopic image of a clay cell, showing a contrast between the smooth cube and the rough cell, and a connection between science and history."@francescasilvertonpots
www.francescasilverton.com
Carine de Barbeyrac
“I first touched clay five years ago when randomly signing up for a ceramic class. I instantly loved the freedom and sometimes forgiveness this material allows.”
Originally from France, Carine used to work as a freelance copy editor for an economic review. She decided to train as a ceramicist and enrolled on the HND Ceramics course at Morley College.
She makes colourful decorative sculptures with free mark making and harmonious shapes inspired by modernism, while exploring clay materials specificities.
