Belfast-born Patricia Volk is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors and a Royal West of England Academician, confirming her position as an outstanding visual artist working in painted fired clay.

Patricia’s work is rooted in instinct and visual intuition. She puts one colour against the other in a way that is satisfying or dynamic, not driven by theory, but by the act of seeing. While she may sometimes understand the thoughts behind her choices, more often she allows her hands to lead, taking time to consider the exact colours.

Patricia likes that the pieces look light and float, a contradiction to the obvious physical weight of clay. Patricia is drawn to the combination of non-figurative form and colour to set off a series of juxtaposing ideas in the viewer’s mind: tranquillity, elegance, power, sadness, rest, action, conflict, a sense of movement. All these things trigger human emotions of some kind.