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Catherine is a long-time resident of Jimena de la Frontera, where she moved after obtaining her City and Guilds Certificate in Ceramics, as well as a Master's Degree in Three-dimensional Design (with Honours).
At her studio just outside Jimena she started out by creating domestic ware on the wheel, as well as unique single pieces. In the 1990s, Catherine moved back to England, where she taught for six years at secondary school level. At the same time, she attained a Master's Degree and a Postgraduate teaching certificate. Having finished her studies, Fender Hall taught at two Adult Education centres in London.
She returned to Spain in 2008, to renovate her studio, which took two years to accomplish. Since then, she has concentrated on her own work and given weekly classes at her own Zambana Ceramics, a residential pottery school with annual courses.
In common with many of her contemporary ceramists and potters, Catherine has explored the use of ceramic and earthenware vessels as sculptures, usually defined as 'abstract vessels'. Her work in this field is constructed from two flat clay slabs that open a dialogue with their more functional and traditional cousins. This, she says, is where her imagination feels more comfortable among the manner in which to embellish the surfaces, the need for their use as a container and its profile.
Simultaneously, Fender Hall's imagination runs to aesthetic concerns in contemporary urban architecture. "I am captivated by its emotional forms and reflecting glass façades," she says.
These urban landscapes, together with the abstract vessels, are what bring forth her own aesthetic language, exploring classical as well as romantic concepts, interpreted as thought and experience.
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