Ceramic work
My love for throwing on the wheel is endless - when I start it is difficult to stop, be it mugs, teapots, jugs or soup bowls. Now I only make a few domestic pots , as I am concentrating on bowls, large dishes, shapes and sculptures - working on texture, colours and new ways of glazing.
The Love of Making a Bowl
The most elemental act in pottery
is the making of a bowl
- it is easy, challenging,
a delight to throw on the wheel
yet extremely difficult to achieve
the near perfect bowl
I have to be calm and let it flow like poetry
in my mind I see the shape -
a closed bowl or a wide open bowl
depending on my feeling
at the time.
Bowls go through many processes
- you might have the perfect shape
with an unperfected glaze
or a bad shape with a perfect glaze
or a perfect shape and glaze,
yet with a slight imperfection
no bowl is perfect -
apart from the bowl with a slight imperfection.
I cannot make just one bowl
like ceramic paintings I capture within my bowls
the land and the sea.
rough and smooth ~ wild and serene ~ calm and chaos
the contrast of life.
