Before
After. Continuing to add more spheres.
Sometimes I hear people say that they can not believe my ceramic sculptures are hand made, often they think it is made using plaster moulds. I have to agree with them on that, they are precise. I am often drawn to making ceramic sculpture that is very clean and very much focused on the form and using colour to highlight this in ways. There is something about this approach that often creates new possibilities. Clay has the potential to be expressed in a very textual and fluid way, some people like to revel this and I remember back when I was studying my BA I was drawn to this approach. However I eventually moved away from it as I become interested in expressing geometric archetectual referencing forms. Who knows maybe sometime in the future I might be interested in going back to this in some way.
The plan with these pieces is to keep building up the forms by adding more spheres. I am aiming for something of a mushroom cloud like shape. I guess it douse not exactly look like clouds but like a lot of my work I want to leave space for the imagination.
Freshly thrown spheres all hand-made on the potters wheel.
I have a little bit of evidence to prove they are hand-made. The potters wheel is very much a central tool for me to use to help create my ceramic sculptures. With these new sculptures I am working on at the moment they are all made from individual spheres that have been cut up and joined together.
This ceramic sculpture is made from stoneware clay. I often use this clay as it holds its shape well and it is a strong material to work with.
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