Tracie Peisley

Peisley’s work is intense, highly charged with an emotional content that relates to the everyday drama of existing.

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Nov 30

S K U L L
Porcelain 17.5 x 17.5 cm
Porcelain, multiple firings

£200 ( reduced from catalogue price)

S H E E P S K U L L
Porcelain sculpture 10 x 21 x 6 cm
Raku fired
One of my first ceramic pieces made in 2005 during training as an Art Therapist at Hertfordshire.
((((Not previously for sale))))).

£275
Prices include P&P

Both pieces hark back to my days as a shepherdess on Lesvos.

#porcelain #peisleyplates #peisleyceramics #contemporaryceramics #skull #sheepskull

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Nov 30

In the depths there are more questions than answers. Continuing to paint and draw while listening to 'Wintering'.
I can give myself permission to be with the rambling uncontained complexities.
#drawing #wintering #grief #unconscious

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Nov 30

Drawing in the night time.

Sometimes as artists we make things which we don't recognise and it's hard to evaluate them as they sit uncomfortably outside our windows of aesthetic and emotional tolerance.

I was listening to @katherinemay_ s audio book 'wintering'.

#drawing #drama #drawinginthedark #sketchbook #workingdrawing #unconscious #depth

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Nov 29

T A K E M E T H E R E
porcelain art piece with gold lustre
17 x 17 cm

Drawing of 'take me there' mixed media.

Every piece holds a wish and truth.
Younger, in Greece I jumped bare back on a black mare and with just a halter I rode her at dusk along the coast at Eftalou, before returning her to her field.
The things we think we can only do in dreams.
Shown in my 2021 catalogue this piece is £275 p&p is Free for a limited time.

#peisleyplates #porcelainplates #takemethere

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Nov 29

WOW!!!

that was a visual work out, I will be alert and wired for the day now... after an hour of drawing quick poses with Chloe Briggs @drawingisfree_org .

Thank you to all the people who posed. Sorry I didn't quite capture your essence but with such a daily practice it can only improve.

Great play list Chloe. Merci!

#drawing #getupanddraw #drawingonzoom

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Nov 28

C H I C A G O B A B Y
23 h x 22 w x 8 d cm
ceramic sculpture and quick sketch.
'I feel you feeling me ' Thomas Hubl.
Getting to know the work made from a stream of consciousnes.
This baby is non binery.
#contemporaryceramics #fineartceramics
#drawing
#selfdefining

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Nov 27

These soft apparently random lines were achieved drawing with a sheet of paper over my drawing hand.

The first is a figure standing, the second sitting. The idea of the excercise is to really slow down and focus on looking ... not looking at the drawing at all.

Alex Roberts of DJCAD who led the class suggested this would be an intimate experience and it truelly was, so intimately following the lines and forms of the model like she was under a microscope!

I felt moved my the tender renditions and think it prepared me for using my time wisely on the longer pose.

A free class with @drawingprojectsuk & Trinity Bouy drawing prize.
Thank you
@alexroberts975 @djcad_uod

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Nov 27

This morning on this blustery grey day I had the pleasure of drawing with Alex Roberts from DJCAD. Wow a long time since I have had such a session. Still hard on line on my little lap top I feel like a mole with my sketchbook peering into the glass at Emma so far away in Dundee I think. Would so love to do another long intensive period of study it's so enriching, literally I feel I'm having a transfusion of creative liquor that thrills me.
This was a free session through Trinity Bouy drawing prize with Anita Taylor. Thank you
@drawingprojectsuk @drawingdailydjcad

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Nov 26

A drawing of my ceramics.
48 x 52cm mixed media on paper

Original ceramic on stoneware porcelain is
24 x33cm

This process is a revelation! I am enjoying it so much.

I have this sense of the birds caught in the nets of the cherry orchard in summer time. Those cherries are so tasty.

If anyone is passing I will be at the Museum Gallery tomorrow.

#peisleyceramics #drawingceramics #drawing #birds #birdsinherhair
#whitstablemuseum

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Nov 26

Latest ceramic
24 x31cm porcelain stoneware
Latest drawing of ceramic
58 x 42 cm mixed media on paper

And if you wondered...

The bird cage is an antique one in the Gogos museum in Vatousa. The gate represents the iron gate in my childhood, the candelabra...the light of the world maybe, the Moth..grief. the swallow always enduring devotion the swirling winds...emotion and tumult, the vessels...life force and mortality, the labyrinths..the path, the olive wreath both victory and false claims of victory.The acid yellow my madness, the mazerine ...the balm.

Or

Whatever it means to you, what ever you see as we bring ourselves in our looking.

#peisleyceramics #drawing #personalmythology

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Nov 25

When I've made a ceramic piece I often feel frustrated by the drawing within it, although there are other qualities I like. So today I made a drawing of a piece. I have to say I like it even more than the ceramic.

58 x 42cm mixed media on paper

Following the recent 6 week focus on ALL things drawing I learnt a few things:

1. Use felt tips.
2. Enough already.
3. Draw from life.
4. Do more of what you really want.
5. Set an intention.

Rather than make a ton of new work... I'm going to look properly at work I have already made and be still with it through drawing.
I'm going to draw the dog more often.
#drawing #enoughalready #allthingsdrawing #peisleyceramics #drawingcorrespondence

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Nov 25

Quick Peep

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Nov 25

The difficulty of breathing
TW: death, grief, last hours

We looked at drawing and breathing in the recent drawing Correspondence course, the body I am in with @kovats66

When I was a child I was shy of my out breath showing in cold air as a bodily emission. In Yoga practice my own breath alarmed me, the vulgarity of it. My friends often notice my heavy wheezing breath.
In the recent exercises I was returned to my mother's dieing breaths and my very small self calling close to her ''no mummy please mummy'. She did come back once to stay with us, long enough for me to sing to her the lullaby I had made up for my daughter and hymns I learnt as a child. Long enough for those close to see her and say good bye. With ruptured aneurysm they congeal and then rupture again I think. Medicated against any pain and not conscious her later breaths were so long and so deep and seemed to exhale everything in a deep groaning. Her body seemed to wither beneath the sheet and she grew paler. Maybe it's something people see and never mention. It's a sacred right of passage. I write it so I don't have to visit it alone. So I can grieve and feel felt and not alone.

#mypoetey #breathing #grief #trauma #breathe #lastbreath #ifeelyoufeelingme #drawingbreath

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Nov 24

Drawing
#drawing #mydogs #paws #awolfineveryone

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Nov 24

They dreamt of eachother
Beast Collection ( more on my website)
37 x 49 cm
Large vintage print, Indian ink & pencil
#drawing #beast #wolf

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Nov 24

A N Y W H E R E

( Thiss poem is inspired by the rhythm and loss in Janet Frame's poem about her sister who drowned, Myrtle , ' oh I wish you would come back again... for I think I still see you dimly...' in the film 'Angel at my table.')

#drawing #drawinginbrail #constellation #lovepoetry #mypoetry #notanywhere #airdrawing #noone #poetrytonoone #janetframe

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Nov 24

A I R drawing
#mypoetry #drawing #peisleyceramics #loss #lovepoetry #missing #loveiseverywhere #noone #poetrytonoone

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Nov 23

Currently exhibited at Whitstable Museum Gallery. One of the few large porcelain stoneware pieces I have made. Multiple firings created the painterly expression I wanted.
Sitting within the talent of 30 ceramic artists. Until Sunday.
#peisleyplates #peisleyceramics #fineartceramics #contemporaryceramics #collectableart

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Nov 23

C O M E

(This poem is inspired by the film, 'A Ghost Story ' by David Lowery)
#mypoetry #mydrawing
beautiful swallow tatoo by @pastilliam

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Nov 22

Flashback to my beautiful 'Museum Coat' lost on the 13th February 2018 at Paddington Station on a train to Oxford.
It never surfaced as far as I know. I could make another, I have enough of the theatrical fabric I bought at Walcot Market in Bath and I could re-paint the drawings, sew on a million roses and applique the sapphire blue satin which was from amazing opera singer @lauremeloy I think. Perhaps I will start it as a slow New Year's project.
#mycoat #floralarmour #lost #canihaveitback #somethings @britishmuseum

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