Materials: Stoneware Porcelain and White hand-building body with underglaze oxides and stoneware glaze
Dimensions: 57cm x 18cm
This piece is hand-built using slabs and coils in a stoneware white body with porcelain. The rivets are individually sprigged and attached and the baby head is cast in porcelain with the fin and fish tail hand-modeled onto the head.
The piece is dry brush textured and hand-painted before firing to 1260 degrees in oxidation. Baby Buoy is my Reaction to the title Hybrid, which was the theme of this year’s sculpture competition at ‘Potfest Scotland’ where we exhibited in June. Interestingly it also reflects my Reaction to environmental issues we are experiencing these days with overfishing and human waste seriously affecting the oceanic environment.
Foremost though, this Is my Reaction to the beautiful images I captured whilst on a recent trip to New Zealand. I am very inspired by surface texture and colour, both natural and man-made, and have always loved marine lifebuoys, which have very interesting, beautiful forms. The more rusty and weather beaten the more aesthetically pleasing I find them. I have had a longing to represent my interpretation of these forms for quite some time, and this is an ongoing theme I will continue to explore. The baby head adds a slightly dark, yet humorous, element to the piece which appeals to the inner child in us all.
This piece is hand-built using slabs and coils in a stoneware white body with porcelain. The rivets are individually sprigged and attached and the baby head is cast in porcelain with the fin and fish tail hand-modeled onto the head.
The piece is dry brush textured and hand-painted before firing to 1260 degrees in oxidation. Baby Buoy is my Reaction to the title Hybrid, which was the theme of this year’s sculpture competition at ‘Potfest Scotland’ where we exhibited in June. Interestingly it also reflects my Reaction to environmental issues we are experiencing these days with overfishing and human waste seriously affecting the oceanic environment.
Foremost though, this Is my Reaction to the beautiful images I captured whilst on a recent trip to New Zealand. I am very inspired by surface texture and colour, both natural and man-made, and have always loved marine lifebuoys, which have very interesting, beautiful forms. The more rusty and weather beaten the more aesthetically pleasing I find them. I have had a longing to represent my interpretation of these forms for quite some time, and this is an ongoing theme I will continue to explore. The baby head adds a slightly dark, yet humorous, element to the piece which appeals to the inner child in us all.
