Melanie Legge

Works
  • Husk II
    Husk II
    Melanie Legge
    Porcelain
    £ 950.00
  • Sea Kelp III
    Sea Kelp III
    Melanie Legge
    Porcelain
    £ 985.00
  • Turbulent Waters
    Turbulent Waters
    Melanie Legge
    Porcealin
    £ 950.00
  • Crucible
    Crucible
    Melanie Legge
    Porcelain, Crackle Glaze
    Sold
  • Dancing with the Current
    Dancing with the Current
    Melanie Legge
    Porcelain
    Sold
  • Husk I
    Husk I
    Melanie Legge
    Porcelain
    Sold
  • Jubilant
    Jubilant
    Melanie Legge
    Porcelain, Crackle Glaze
    Sold
  • Restless
    Restless
    Melanie Legge
    Porcelain
    Sold
  • Sea Grace
    Sea Grace
    Melanie Legge
    Porcelain
    Sold
  • Sea Kelp I
    Sea Kelp I
    Melanie Legge
    Porcelain
    Sold
  • Sea Kelp II
    Sea Kelp II
    Melanie Legge
    Porcelain
    Sold
  • Turbulence
    Turbulence
    Melanie Legge
    Porcelain
    Sold
Overview
Melanie Legge

Melanie Legge's porcelain works are inspired by our oceans and aquatic plant life, and from a love of Cornwall formed during childhood summers on the Roseland Peninsula. Her passion for clay began when she attended The Chelsea Pottery studio aged eleven, and she continues to share her enthusiasm for clay, teaching ceramics at the Vienna International School, and more recently at the Copenhagen International School, where she first began experimenting with the materials and effects that she is known for.

Melanie is a ceramicist and sculptor based in Hampshire. Her work can be found in private collections in Switzerland, Denmark, France, Austria and the UK, and her portraits have been selected for the Society of Portrait Sculptors' FACE exhibitions, as well as the collections of the Royal Geographical Society (portrait of Sir Ranulph Fiennes), and Messrs C Hoare & Co (portrait of Henry Hoare).

Biography
Melanie Legge

Melanie is a ceramicist and sculptor based in Hampshire. Her work is often inspired by the sea, waves and aquatic plant life from a deep love of Cornwall first established as a child when Melanie spent each summer with her Grandparents on the Roseland Peninsula.

 

She says of her work: "Porcelain is capricious; it comes alive in my hands. They merely guide the process.  Even when the piece is complete, the process is not yet finished as the clay carries on living in the kiln.  It is only when it is totally cold, do we know that the work has settled into its final version. My job is to nurture this evolution through some very precarious stages.  I can only relax once it is on a plinth!"

 

Melanie's work can be found in private collections in Switzerland, Denmark, France, Austria, as well as the UK.  Her portraits have been selected on numerous occasions for the Society of Portrait Sculptors' FACE exhibitions, as well as the Royal Geographical Society (Sir Ranulph Fiennes), and Messrs C Hoare & Co (Henry Hoare, former Chairman of the bank).