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Patricia VolkStack by Patricia Volk - Abstract ceramic sculpture, painted clay, blue2025
2025
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About the Item
Stack is a work by British artist Patricia Volk. For this piece, Volk has deliberately chosen a vibrant, deep cobalt blue juxtaposed with a contrasting aquamarine, which also forms the base. Dimensions are 40 × 22 × 20 cm (15.75 × 8.66 × 7.87 in).
It is a unique signed piece and comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Volk’s sculpture is, at its core, an exploration of the interplay between form and color. Her creative process begins with cutting and shaping pieces of clay—her preferred medium—in pursuit of what she calls the perfect line: one that is at once simple and dynamic. Each ceramic element is fired separately before being assembled into a final, harmonious composition. As the artist explains, “There is no pre-thought at all, it either works or it does not. There is such simplicity in a good line that it is completely underestimated, because it is so incredibly difficult […] but so aesthetically pleasing.”
The vibrant colors are applied using acrylic paint, inspired by the American tradition of painted fired clay. Volk chooses her color combinations intuitively, yet with deep awareness.
In Stack, the rich blues and teals accentuate the sculpture’s bold curves and sharp planes, underscoring the tension between balance and contrast—between power and fragility, stability and precariousness, weight and lightness. Through this dynamic use of color and form, her work evokes sensations of calm, movement, or inner conflict in the viewer.
Patricia Volk is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors (FRSS) and an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA). Her work was recently featured in the book 50 Women Sculptors, alongside renowned artists such as Camille Claudel, Barbara Hepworth, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Louise Bourgeois.
- Creator:Patricia Volk (1951, British)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 15.75 in (40 cm)Width: 8.67 in (22 cm)Depth: 7.88 in (20 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU803117032792
Patricia Volk
Patricia Volk’s abstract sculptures are born from the unique combination of two elements, namely form and colour. The intense and vibrant colours used emphasise the shapes of the sculpture, the balances and contrasts between power and fragility, stability and precariousness, heaviness and lightness. Patricia Volk is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, an old English organisation promoting excellence in sculpture, and an Academician of the Royal West of England Academ. Her work was recently featured in the book “50 Women Sculptors”, alongside that of very famous artists such as Camille Claudel, Niki de Saint Phalle and Louise Bourgeois. “My obsession is catching a very simple form or line, primarily, then enhancing it with colour. Sometimes I use juxtapositions of two forms that I hope suggest contradictions of strength and fragility, stability and precariousness – like the relationships between human beings.”
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