Artist Bio
Nichola Dalton is a ceramic artist based on the shores of Lough Neagh, County Antrim.
A graduate in Fashion and Textile design, Dalton is interested in colour and texture and this interest lives on in her clay pieces. She spent several years attending evening and summer schools in Belfast School of Art, Ceramics Department and she is also a full-time teacher. She is a member of The Association For Art & Design Education where she regularly exhibits at annual shows and she often writes articles on Art Education in their magazine. Dalton has proudly been featured in Ceramic Review Magazine and has exhibited her ceramic work in the Royal Ulster Academy.
Dalton is fascinated by the simultaneous wildness and calm, conflicting textures, and the repetition of nature in her natural environment. The colour and light of Lough Neagh and County Antrim coastline provide a rich, natural palette. She is in pursuit of natural colouring reflecting the environment and it seems fitting that she produces her own glazes reflecting this unique blend.
Dalton hand builds simple, strong, textural forms using Stoneware clay. Her vessels provide a blank canvas for explorations in surface texture, pattern, and colour. Her glaze application process is strongly experimental and spontaneous in approach; the effects are similar but never the same leading to pieces that are always unique.
