Sally Wakelin – Studies in Creativity
Paintings, drawings, sculpture and writing
My brother sent me this photograph of a little hand-painted ceramic dish our mother made maybe 50 years ago. She and our father both made several dishes in pottery and both signed them with their common monogrammed initials RW , so I’m not entirely sure whose this is but my gut reaction is that it was my mother. It is a perfect example of hand-decorated studio pottery from the ’50s.
Here are some more – the yellow bowl is one of my favourites.
A simple arrangement of hemispherical castings on a white background produces a rich variety of grey tones.
Later when the sun has moved around the shadows are much softer
The morning sunlight was particularly vivid today just at the right time to fall through an early work by my mother Rosemary Wakelin casting a pink glow onto the wood floor and throwing a pink sash around the clock-case.
The sculpture in pink and blue Perspex hangs in my hall window and reminds me of the time it hung in my mother’s house filling her kitchen with a warm pink glow.
A work in progress – based on rotations of four types of cast disc – the backboard will be white.
Light falling across a corrugated surface always intrigues me – inspired by my father Richard Wakelin’s sculptures from 20 years ago, I made this smaller copy of his Stepped Cube.
A few years ago, I made this pleated paper installation in the deconsecrated chapel, whilst attending a Drawing course at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with David Nash, amongst others. A length of drawing paper 5m x 1.5m repeatedly folded and set in front of one of the long windows, behaved like a bucket of light and has inspired me to make more pleated paper sculptures since.
Sally Wakelin - Studies in Creativity 
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