The fourth batch is split between five rounded and five straight forms. Most have now got pulled strap handle on them to alter and have a different design to them. Three still have a thrown knob to them again a simple basic design with doesn’t distract from the very heavy textured design on the form.  

                

This next batch (3^rd ) is of ten pieces, five are lidded jars again, four of them are a rounded form with one being straight sided. The other five pieces are exploring texture on the surface, of three of them and the last two are thrown then trimmed and using a rubber kidney to distort and manipulate the shape to further enhance and create another form, changing it from it first original shape. 

                  

So it’s been a while, about a month now and I’ve been playing with more clay!

Here is the second batch I’ve created taken from the first batch and further developed, mostly using a rounded form refined with a bit of turning and then added thickened joining slip (clay and water) applied to the surface, then using my finger to drag through the surface of the slip.  

another play with clay was the following vessels with added texture to the outside, kinda adding and developing to my textured bowls/plates. you might remember back a couple of months I was making vessels well continued on with that and kept some and completed with glazes (pic of two on shelf) although they look better in real life, definitely not a photographer!

these following images are of vessels with textures added to the outside, hoping to develop these further in the next couple of weeks and get some fired with different glazes on them! 

keep a look out for 'em! 

 

Hey been a while since I posted but have been having a play with clay these are kinda a homage to Duncan Ayscough (http://www.ayscoughceramics.co.uk/) who was the first every person to teach me to throw (on the wheel). He taught me at CCTA Jobswell (now Coleg Sir a Gar) and later when I did my full degree at Howard Gardens (UWIC) in Cardiff.

Such an amazing throwner/maker with an amazing ability to teach and make you consider and develop.
For everything you helped me achieve then and now, thanks again!

playing with ugly teapots ideas!

 
 
Here's a small batch of thrown forms with extruded additions that I've been playing with. They give an interesting reference to functional (or lack off!) teapots as they have no lids of such and they're spouts can not function by having no holes cut allowing liquid to travel from the body through to the spout.

Thoughts and Pictures

An exhibition in association with Arena Studios and Gallery

Featuring: Josie Jenkins, Phil McKay, Susan Stevens, Carol Ramsay, Mike Snowdon, Lucy Wilson, Nathan Pendlebury, Helen Pendlebury, Anthony Pendlebury, Mo Peacock, Claire Weetman, Julie Dodd, Anna Ketskemety, Richard Robinson and Gareth Kemp.

“This Autumn, Sir Howard and Lady Newby are delighted to invite you to Thoughts and Pictures, an exhibition which brings together a mixture of selected artists showcasing artistic talent from across Liverpool.   The featured artists are linked through the craftsmanship they use to represent their vision, presenting art, craft and illustration which displays real skill and process in its execution, whether the work is figurative or abstract”.

Thursday 3^rd October - Wednesday 4^th December 2013