Ceramics Portfolio

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Ceramics Portfolio

Some examples from my ceramics portfolio

THis marks the point I started taking ceramics less seriously. Cups hanging from the washing line

Plates hanging from the washing line

These were called wonky pots and the whole idea is moving away from mass production hitting the pots and then throwing slip on randomly

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A selection of items I fuind on the beach that get fired in my seaside saggar work

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Budvase made with a custom clay on a recycled wood and perspex base.

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Saggar tiles, with shell marks from where the work was tumble stacked. framed in reclaimed oak

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A saggar fired wonky pot the decoration is randomly applied and the firing makes the clay blush

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A variety of lidded rocks showing off the different sorts of surfaces that can be created from the firing. Lidded rocks are meant to look like natural forms that I have found.

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Lidded rocks are meant to look like natural forms that I have found.

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A variety of lidded rocks showing off the different sorts of surfaces that can be created from the firing. Lidded rocks are meant to look like natural forms that I have found.

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Potters have a thing about "vessels" that is usually defined as things like bowls cups etc, my vessels only have the appearance of use. Randomly decorated.

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A trio of wonky pots

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A trio of wonly pots on reclaimed plinths

A tile framed in a reclaimed oak frame, covered with shell marks. Photographed at the beach in a Gorse bush

A lidded rock photographed at the beach

Budvase on a reclaimed plinth photographed on the beach in the sand dunes

Wonky pot on a piece of drift wood with a bokeh brick wall

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