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July 2009 | by: Andrew Lambirth | Comments (0)

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National Gallery, until 20 September

By way of contrast, let me recommend a delightful show at Camden Arts Centre (until 2 August), of the pottery of Ann Stokes (born 1922). Stokes is known as the artists’ potter because of her sculptural feeling for form and her painterly application of colour. Largely self-taught, she began to make pottery in the 1960s, and has built up a substantial body of work. The display is a pleasingly simple installation of pots and cups on trestle tables, with shelves of plates, animals and objects (including a couple of clocks), and wall decorations such as tiles and mirrors. The fresh colour only emphasises the unaffected form. My favourites include the spiny puffer fish and the hoopoe box. A new book (Lund Humphries £35) celebrates her achievement: intuitive, lyrical and with a robust delicacy that is utterly beguiling.

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