Barbara Cauvin

Barbara Cauvin (1925- ) was born in South Africa where she studied fine art at the Podolini Art School in Cape Town while serving an apprenticeship as a commercial artist. An accomplished portraitist when she migrated to Tasmania in 1964 and took up ceramics, her drawing skills are evident in her ceramic works. As well as making wheel-thrown domestic stoneware at her home studio in Sandy Bay, she used hand-coiling techniques to build gritty sculptural forms with a strong marine influence, some larger pieces taking up to 600 hours to make. In the late 1970s, she also started experimenting with crystalline glazes, holding her first exhibition of crystalline-glazed bottles and dishes in 1982. In a 1993 article on her work in Pottery in Australia (32/4), she was planning a series of semi-relief portraits to be cast in bronze. She returned to painting in 1996 after the death of her husband and was still practicing as an artist in 2012 when she exhibited both watercolours and ceramics at the Salamanca Arts Centre. Her mark is recorded in the 1977-1986 directories as 'BC'. Early work may be signed with a painted 'B. Cauvin Hobart' and later works with an impressed 'Barbara Cauvin'.

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