Taurus Gallery offers a wide and varied range of ceramic art from the traditional to a collection of contemporary figarative ceramic sculpture.
Prices start at £13.00 and artist with work for sale include:

Helen Martino
Richard Ballantyne
Tony Carter
Keith Jamieson
Jeremy McLachlan
Ceranimals

Ceranimals. Ceramic Camel : £45.00

Ceranimals hand made ceramic animals are available in different sizes and colours and start at £19.50

Ceranimals. Ceramic Elephant : £30.00

Ceranimals. Ceramic Cow £45.00

Ceranimals.Ceramic Sheep £30.00 each

Ceranimals. Ceramic Cow £45.00

Ceranimals. Ceramic Animals from £19.50 each

Richard Ballantyne. Saki/Oil Pots, Glazed Ceramic £35.00 each

Richard Ballentyne. Large Coffee Pot (left) £35.00, Small Coffee Pot (right) £30.00

Tony Carter. Large Cat Teapot £70.00

Tony Carter. Small Teapots, various designs available £35.00 each

Jeremy McLachlan. Puffin, Raku-Fired Ceramic £75.00

Jeremy McLachlan. Mother Penguin (centre), Raku-Fired Ceramic £95.00, Baby Penguins (left & right) £35.00 each

Jeremy McLachlan. Lesser-Spotted Woodpecker, Raku-Fired Ceramic SOLD

Ceranimals. Ceramic Angel £45.00

Helen Martino. Sweethearts £110.00

Her work completely changed, and she started to use a hand building technique using soft and flexible sheets of clay. These new pieces often refer back to functional wares but are flattened and distorted. The sheets of clay are freely cut, curved and sometimes twisted. Helen plays with perspective by distorting the objects as in stage set. By inclination she is also a painter, and views these flattened forms as three dimensional canvases.

Helen Martino. Long Beaked Turquoise Bird, Glazed Ceramic £55.00 

Helen Martino. Green Squiggle Pot (front) £40.00, Golden Squiggle Pot (back) £45.00

The surfaces are painted with slips, underglaze pigments, and latex and wax resists. Sometimes she adds silver, gold and copper leaf. With these pots she is 'rejecting' her early training, which was steeped in the tradition of Bernard Leach, the first 'studio potter', whose philosophy was based on a reverence of the east. Helen has, however, absorbed and valus highly his ideals of craftmanship and awareness of ceramic form.

Helen Martino. Bird Jug (front) £50.00, Bird Jub (back) £65.00

Helen Martino. Coffee Pot £140.00

Helen Martino. Grey Dishy Lady £90.00

Helen Martino

Helen describes her present pots as 'serious, posh and frivolous' because for many years she was a functional potter, making batches of domestic pots on the wheel. These new pots are hand built individually, and each is considered seperately. This change in direction followed the death of her youngest child, Tom, at 15 in a speed boat accident.

Detail: Summer Boating. Glazed Ceramic £140.00

Helen Martino. Small Green Squiggle Pot(left)£30.00, Black Chicken (right) £45.00

Helen Martino. My Favourite Armchair. Glazed Ceramic £250.00

Other influences have come from contemporary potters such as Gordon Baldwin, Eileen Nisbet and Particularly John Maltby, who showed her that pottery can be sculptural and, above all, a means of communication and expression, as well as being things of beauty.

Helen Martino. Green Cornish Stone Glased Ceramic £75.00

Helen Martino. Sitting on Cushions £175.00

Helen lives, teaches and works in Cambridge, but exhibits widely in galleries around the UK. She is a founder member of the Cambridge Open Studios, where on weekends in July Cambridge artists invite the public into their studios and workplaces.

Helen Martino. Blue Dishy Lady £90.00