Ceramics
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
― Pablo Picasso
Recently, the artwork I have been creating has been carrying on from finishing my Masters Degree in Ceramics.
I have always worked with transferring images onto the surfaces of the objects I hand-build. Using the surface of the clay like a blank page in a journal, I tell a story using photographs, lino prints and single descriptive words.
Through studying for my MA, this has developed from the literal to the supposed. Having started by printing images onto stoneware clay, I now draw on thin sheets of porcelain clay, cover the drawing with a resist and wash the surrounding porcelain clay off, leaving a seemingly blank surface which only reveals the drawing when the translucent surface is lit from behind.
Image Gallery
Being addicted to all things Roman, frequent adventures to various sites introduced me to face pots. Face pots have been found all over the world and they were used to hold the cremated remains of humans. No one knows if the face depicted on the pot is the face of the deceased contained within, or perhaps the face of the artist who made the pot. facinatingly, modern science can tell us the sex, diseases suffered, where the deceased came from and what sort of foods they ate from the bone fragments in the ashes. Inspired by the story behind them, I have been creating my own take on the originals.
