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29 April 2021 - 29 May 2021

‘Cumbrian Blue(s), English Scenery, Wordsworth’s Lake Country, Grasmere Church’ (view 1), 2021

In-glaze decal collage and gold lustre on Nelson Ware jug c.1930
H:12.7cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), English Scenery, Wordsworth’s Lake Country, Grasmere Church’ (view 2), 2021

In-glaze decal collage and gold lustre on Nelson Ware jug c.1930
H:12.7cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), English Scenery, Wordsworth’s Lake Country’ (view 1), 2014

In-glaze decal collage and gold lustre on Nelson Ware jug c.1930
H:12.7cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), English Scenery, Wordsworth’s Lake Country’ (view 2), 2014

In-glaze decal collage and gold lustre on Nelson Ware jug c.1930
H:12.7cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, Near the Oxbow (After Thomas Cole)’ No:4., 2020

Decal (screenprint) on broken Booths Semi-Porcelain platter c.1880, with kintsugi and gold leaf
H:36cm W:46cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, Sampler No:5’, 2021

Transfer print collage on pearlware platter
D:30.5cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, Fracked, No:1’, 2020

In-glaze screen print (decal) collage, on repaired, shell-edged pearlware platter c.1820, kintsugi and gold leaf
H:30.5cm W:39cm D:3.5cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, Souvenir of Portland/Trumpian Campaigne, No:6’, 2021

In-glaze screen print (decal) on partially erased, Staffordshire transferware souvenir plate by Rowland & Marsellus, c.1900
D:25cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s) Arctic Scenery, Kulluk’, 2014

In-glaze decal collage and gold lustre on Baker Bevans & Irwins (Glamorgan Pottery) shell edged pearlware platter c.1820
H:29cm W:37cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s) (Spode Works Closed) Willow, sampler jug No:2.’ (view 1), 2021

Inglaze decal collage on pearlware jug
H:36.5cm W:39.5cm D:30cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s) (Spode Works Closed) Willow, sampler jug No:2.’ (view 2), 2021

Inglaze decal collage on pearlware jug
H:36.5cm W:39.5cm D:30cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:8’, 2020

Transferware collage made for the launch of new Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:32.5cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:9’, 2020

Transferware collage made for the launch of new Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:32.5cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:10’, 2020

Transferware collage made for the launch of new Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:32.5cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:12’, 2020

Transferware collage made for the launch of new Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:32.5cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:16’, 2020

Transferware collage made for the launch of new Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:32.5cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:17’, 2021

Transferware collage , Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:27.4cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:18’, 2021

Transferware collage , Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:27.4cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:19’, 2021

Transferware collage , Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:27.4cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:20’, 2021

Transferware collage , Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:27.4cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:21’, 2021

Transferware collage , Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:27.4cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:22’, 2021

Transferware collage , Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:27.4cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:24’, 2021

Transferware collage , Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:27.4cm
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‘Cumbrian Blue(s), The Gardens of Lyra, No:25’, 2021

Transferware collage , Fortnum & Mason teaware design
D:27.4cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Teacup Cutting, No. 2, 2021

cut detail from early 19th and 20th century transferware plates with gold lustre, coarse sand and gravel in an antique teacup
H:15cm W:11cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Teacup Cutting, No. 3, 2021

cut detail from early 19th and 20th century transferware plates with gold lustre, coarse sand and gravel in an antique teacup
H:14cm W:9cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Teacup Cutting, No. 4, 2021

cut detail from early 19th and 20th century transferware plates with gold lustre, coarse sand and gravel in an antique teacup
H:10cm W:10.5cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Teacup Cutting, No. 1, 2021

cut detail from early 19th and 20th century transferware plates with gold lustre, coarse sand and gravel in an antique teacup
H:15cm W:13cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Flower Pot Cutting, No. 2, 2021

cut detail from early 19th and 20th century transferware plates with gold lustre, coarse sand and gravel in terracotta pot
H:15cm W:8.5cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Flower Pot Cutting, No. 1, 2021

cut detail from early 19th and 20th century transferware plates with gold lustre, coarse sand and gravel in terracotta pot
H:12cm W:11cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Flower Pot Cutting, No. 3, 2021

cut detail from early 19th and 20th century transferware plates with gold lustre, coarse sand and gravel in terracotta pot
H:15cm W:8.5cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Flower Pot Cutting, No. 5, 2021

cut detail from early 19th and 20th century transferware plates with gold lustre, coarse sand and gravel in terracotta pot
H:15.5cm W:9cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Flower Pot Cutting, No. 4, 2021

cut detail from early 19th and 20th century transferware plates with gold lustre, coarse sand and gravel in terracotta pot
H:14cm W:8cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s), The Cuttings Series No:3, Willow, 2021

Assemblage, cuttings from 19th century 'Willow' pattern transferware platter, on hand made porcelian tile from Jingdezhen
H:14cm W:18.5cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s), The Cuttings Series No:15, 2021

Assemblage, cuttings from 19th century transferware platter, on hand made porcelain tile from Jingdezhen
H:10cm W:27.5cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s), The Cuttings Series No:5, Willow, 2021

Assemblage, cutting from 19th century 'Willow' pattern transferware platter, on hand made porcelian tile from Jingdezhen
H:11cm W:12cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s), The Cuttings Series No:4, Willow, 2021

Assemblage, cutting from 19th century 'Willow' pattern transferware platter, on hand made porcelain tile from Jingdezhen
H:16.5cm W:12cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.10, Boats, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate with gold lustre
H:2.5cm W:4.5cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s), The Cuttings Series No:8, Boat, 2021

Assemblage, cutting from 19th century Spode 'Rome' pattern transferware platter, on hand made porcelain tile from Jingdezhen
H:3.5cm W:11cm D:5cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series No:17, Tree, 2021

Assemblage cutting from 19th century transferware plate, on hand made porcelain tile from Jingdezhen
H:15cm W:11.5cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s), The Cuttings Series No:2, Willow, 2021

Assemblage, cuttings from 19th century 'Willow' pattern transferware platter, on hand made porcelain tile from Jingdezhen
H:10cm W:12cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s), The Cuttings Series No:7, Horse, Rider & Mountain, 2021

Assemblage, cuttings from 19th century transferware platters, on hand made porcelain tile from Jingdezhen
H:9cm W:13cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s), The Cuttings Series No:14, Monopteros, 2021

Assemblage, cuttings from 19th century 'Monopteros' pattern transferware platter, on hand made porcelain tile from Jingdezhen
H:7cm W:27.5cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s), The Cuttings Series No:12, Willow River, 2021

Assemblage, cuttings from 19th century 'Willow' & 'Wild Rose' pattern transferware platters, on hand made porcelain tile from Jingdezhen
H:9cm W:12cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.1, Trees, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:8cm W:10cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.2, Trees, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:13.5cm W:12cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.3, Enoch Wood Tree, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:17.5cm W:11cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.4, Trees, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:13cm W:3cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.5, Trees, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:10.5cm W:11cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.6, Trees, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:8cm W:7.5cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.7, Trees, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:8.5cm W:8cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.8, Trees, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:10.5cm W:7.5cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.1, Monopteros Horses, 2021

Cutting from 19th century 'Monopteros' transferware plate
H:4.5cm W:22.5cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s), Cuttings, Series: No.2, Walkers, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:6.5cm W:19.5cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.3, Horse, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:2.5cm W:4cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.4, Figures, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:4cm W:11cm
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Cumbrian Blue(s) Cuttings Series: No.5, Figures, 2021

Cut detail from early 19th/20th century transfer ware plate
H:3.5cm W:5cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s) Willow (Garden) Tray No:1, 2008

In-glaze prints with gold lustre on four porcelain cups and tray made by Anne Linnemann Copenhagen
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s) Willow Tray No:2, 2010

In-glaze prints with gold lustre on four porcelain cups and tray made by Anne Linnemann Copenhagen
D:28cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s) Willow Cups, 2018

In-glaze prints with gold lustre on a porcelain cup made by Anne Linnemann Copenhagen
H:10cm W:11cm
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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Wildflower (After Tom Petty) No.2, 2016

Collage, cut details from assorted transferwares with sliced claypipe and gold leaf
H:28.5cm W:38cm
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Paul Scott in his studio

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Born: 1953

Paul Scott lives and works in rural Cumbria. He has been a professional artist for over thirty years and is best known for his research into ceramics and print. He creates individual pieces that are exacting and critical, blurring the boundaries between fine art and design. A leading proponent of ceramics and print, he has been instrumental in demonstrating the contemporary creative potential of a combination used in industry for hundreds of years to mass-produce decorative wares and tiles. In 2010, he designed thirty linear metres of the record breaking Hanoi Mosaic Mural in Vietnam. Confected, Borrowed and Blue… an Installation by Paul Scott toured throughout 2015 – 2016 at various locations throughout the UK.

‘Over the years, my artworks have commemorated and examined a range of issues, from the Foot and Mouth crisis to the impact of energy extraction and production on our environment… I have inserted nuclear and coal fired power stations as well as wind turbines into pastoral landscapes, exploratory oil rigs in pristine arctic locations – and placed landscapes with fracking rigs onto cracked platters. In March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan was enveloped by tidal waves following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The ensuing events cut power to water-cooling pumps and nuclear fuel rods melted down, creating the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s) Fukushima series commemorates the event. All works have been made on Willow pattern platters made in Japan. Although the Willow Pattern was originally made in late eighteenth century Staffordshire to imitate Chinese porcelain wares, it is a jumbled confection of designs with decorative details incorporating elements not only of Chinese porcelain but also Japanese Imari ware. It has been produced all over the world. I collaged an erased piece of an old English Willow pattern platter (c.1840) into the scene. I removed the original print and replaced it with an in-glaze print after Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa (c.1830). The nuclear power plant can be seen behind garden buildings.’ – Paul Scott, 2016

Public and Private Collections include:

Victoria & Albert Museum, London; National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh; Government Art Collection, UK; New York Historical Society, USA; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; The National Museum Stockholm, Sweden; The National Decorative Arts Museum, Norway; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA; Tullie House Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery.

Paul Scott presents a solo exhibition, Scenery, Samplers & Souvenirs, in May 2021. This exhibition presents new artworks which update historical transferwares for the 21st century, including a selection from his New American Scenery series. The exhibition also features work made as a result of his Gardens of Lyra collaboration with Spode and Fortnum & Mason and also presents new works from his Cuttings Series.


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