stoneware, slips, glazes


from the on-going series, "Uncertain fall" - objects of contemplation

Uncertain Fall #T041

stoneware, underglaze, glaze
50 x 48 x 8

a large canvas-shaped vessel that gave me the impulse to paint. or not! white but not really white. strokes that disappear by fire. 

Without Painting, Paint! #C050

stoneware, slips, glazes
43 x 33 x 13 cm

The green piece series came about during the second confinement as an on-going development of ‘objects of contemplation’. They grew out of the appreciation of the sound that trees make when shedding its barks. I used the peeling glazes as the visual represention of this sound, the memory of this sound. The vertical coils delineate space and light. These vessels are contemplative spaces

The clays are iron-rich stoneware, black or red that I know will prompt the crawling of the glazes to reveal its core material and the under-colours to give a micro- insight, thus contemplative dimension, into the core of the piece





Green Piece #T061

handbuilt stoneware, underglaze, glaze
50 x 30 x 17cm

There was a wonderful moment when, during confinement, I began the "uncertain Fall" - objects of Contemplation . The once formal boundaries of the pieces waver on the edge of freedom only confined by its base. While we were all conforming during confinement, here I  freed myself of the coiling process and had my personal fight against conformism.

 However much close attention and care was given to clay preparation, extruding, drying, decorating and slipping, glazing and packing and all the supporting knowledge that informs those skills, the elemental 'out of control' nature of this piece and its hidden decorative details and textures  is how  I retaught myself to contemplate and free the memories that I thought that I had forgotten. 


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