Hand painted plate

I painted this design onto earthenware bisque using Mayco colours and glazes. As you can see, I adapted the previous painting to fit and compliment the round plate.The layered technique was fired to over 1000c.

This is a painting I did using Chinese water colours on rice paper. The paints have similar properties to ordinary water colour and gouache, giving the appearance of translucency.

pinch pots

This pinch pot was made as a demonstration for a pottery workshop. It is a very simple design to follow and prettily decorated using porcelain glazes.

This pinch pot was made in two parts and then joined to form a vessel.I added a coil of clay to create a lip. The embellishments were made using a clay extruder and were added when the pot was leather hard. The pot was bisque fired to 1000c. I glazed it using a metalic high fire porcelain to 1200c.

This pinch pot was made using stoneware clay and the spiky parts were added at the leather hard stage. It was fired to bisque, then glazed and high fired.


It was made to accompany a large commissioned fruit bowl.

chinese lantern

 Here's a chinese lantern I made a bout a year ago.
It was inspired by feng shui, which i'm really interested in.
Its made using grogged stoneware which is ideal for slab building.

I slab rolled 11 pieces of clay and left to go leather hard. I then cut the pieces to size using a card template. I joined the pieces together using score and slip method. The piece was then bisquit fired prior to glazing. The high fire glaze was then fired again to over 1200c.

Here it is from another angle. The towers can be lit using battery operated tea lights. It can be placed in the home in a good feng shui corner, or outside as it is frost proof.


Looks quite magical when lit.

Matterhorn 2012

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2012
Wow ! A trip that was full of wonder. Stayed in Zermatt for a week, hiking around the base of the marvelous Matterhorn.

chocolate black fruit bowl

 This bowl was made with chocolate black clay and white stoneware clay. I started by rolling small balls of clay in each colour. I then pressed the balls into an ordinary fruit bowl that I lined with clingfilm. To get the swirly effect I gently smoothed the interior with a metal kidney. When it was leather hard I lifted the ware out of the existing fruit bowl and peeled back the clingfilm. It was left to dry and clear glazed before firing to both the clays firing range.

This pot was made using three different clays. Redware, chocolate black and white stoneware. All the clays had similar shrinkage rate and firing temps.
The coiling method was used for this ware to enable the different clays to fit in the design. Once the ware was leather hard I burnished it with the back of a metal spoon. It was then fired at a very slow rate. The pot now has a lovely sheen where it was burnished.

erotic sculptures and statues

 Here is my first stoneware bust, constructed from white stoneware clay. Firstly I made an aperture to build the clay onto. I added small clay pieces to the aperture, gradually building, forming and sculpting.Once finished I carefully took the aperture out, and hollowed it out more. I then fired it to 1200c.

The most enjoyable part was sculpting the wavy hair. I didn't base this sculpture on anyone in particular, but it turned out looking a bit like myself!

 This I named Nymphicus. It was inspired by the female form growing out of tree roots, the brown clay represents the rubber tree of ficus tree.


Made using white earthenware and chocolate black clay. Both clays had similar firing range and similar rates of shrinkage.

The chocolate black tubular parts are actually inserted into the earthenware body.

 This is also a tree nymph.

The most enjoyable part to create were the twisted limbs.

This was glazed using Boltz High Fire

The clay body sculpture was made by making separate body parts, hollowing them out and then joining together using score and slip method.

Chinese landscape paintings

I have just painted this design onto a bisque plate. It comes out of the kiln in the morning.

                                                 

A typical landscape with water

A lovely background design

Here are a few chinese paintings I have done over the past few months. All of them were painted using chinese water colour and black pine needle ink. Painted onto a single piece of rice paper. they have all been pasted and backed ready for framing.