Detail of three Vases, Strata, Kidsty Pike and Red Riven.
New ranges for 2013 include the "Naked" clay range and the "Strata" range. These use a different handbuilding technique using a series of four different coloured stoneware clays with no glazing or colouring. The "Naked" clay ranges are the high fired clays without any glaze or colouring.
These objects are reassembled and rolled together to form one body of clay in the four different colours.
For the Strata range, I use White Stoneware, Porcelain, Black Iron enriched clay and Crank. I use the same four for the Naked ranges but I reassemble these like a jigsaw puzzle or a mosaic creating a blocked out patchwork of squares as one clay body.
These hand built slabbed ranges are very raw and natural looking more akin to rock or stone strata, than clay, they are fired to Stoneware. The word Stoneware literally means vitrification like stone.
The high firing vitrifies the surfaces permanently allowing colonisation of lichens or mosses to the surfaces if they are left outside. Creating another new dimension to the surfaces over time.
My aim with this series of work is to make them look like they are carved from stone, taken from the ground or like a cross section of rock strata. You will be able to see more of this style at my forthcoming solo exhibition "Strata" in 2013.
These objects are reassembled and rolled together to form one body of clay in the four different colours.
For the Strata range, I use White Stoneware, Porcelain, Black Iron enriched clay and Crank. I use the same four for the Naked ranges but I reassemble these like a jigsaw puzzle or a mosaic creating a blocked out patchwork of squares as one clay body.
These hand built slabbed ranges are very raw and natural looking more akin to rock or stone strata, than clay, they are fired to Stoneware. The word Stoneware literally means vitrification like stone.
The high firing vitrifies the surfaces permanently allowing colonisation of lichens or mosses to the surfaces if they are left outside. Creating another new dimension to the surfaces over time.
My aim with this series of work is to make them look like they are carved from stone, taken from the ground or like a cross section of rock strata. You will be able to see more of this style at my forthcoming solo exhibition "Strata" in 2013.