incising, stamping & impressing to create a textured surface combined with multilayer glazing, using some crystalline ready made glazes as well as my own glazes.
Some pieces are worked onto a single slab whilst others are cut and reassembled , before being permanently fixed to board or frame.The pieces are then grouted.
This technique probably stems from the years making stained glass It seems natural to create images that are dissected in some way.
'Flowerboat' - multipiece panel
'Starry Night Flight'- multipiece panel 60cms x 27 cms
'Dream ' - a single piece ceramic Painting
'Walk back to Cawsand' - a single piece ceramic painting
'Cabin by the sea' single piece panel
'Magical Garden'- multipiece panel 26" x 14"
'Rame Winter'- multipiece panel
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Ceramic Panels
'Swallow Garden'
The following three pictures are from ' Gunnislake Station '
Terracotta Tulip
Techniques
Click on picture above for a close up view of picture surface and detail
I use a variety of glazes, temperatures ranging from 1020 degrees to 1200 degrees. Some pieces are suitable for outside. Pieces can
be ordered ‘frameless’ or framed in a simole wooden frame.
