Create to Inspire

Create to Inspire is a collaborative project between Tony J Moody and the brick and tile makers HG Matthews.

 

HG Matthews is one of those rare artisan manufacturing survivors from a bygone age. Making and firing their hand-made bricks and tiles, true to a time honoured heritage with traditional ways. They purposefully buck the trend towards mass manufacture.

 

“Glaze bricks and bespoke tiles figure high amongst their quality products. Seeing these, and the variety and skilled nature of the work on a regular basis, I became increasingly interested in exploring what creative possibilities might open up to showcase these relatively common materials by combining them in fresh and interesting new ways."

 

For Tony, Create to Inspire represents a new creative departure and a coming together of a multi-layering of ideas, some traditional and others more innovative and subtle. 

This ceramic collage was commissioned for the client reception area within the glaze department of
H G Matthews at the brickworks in Bellingdon, Bucks. The wall measures 3.3 metres by 2.8 metres.