Decorative Pottery featuring underglaze painting and sgraffito design
Baba Yaga and Her Dancing House, slab formed vessel, clay and underglaze, 28.5cm H x 24cm W x 9.5cm D
Baba Yaga and Her Dancing House, detail
Baba Yaga and Her Dancing House, reverse
“We were green: we ripened and grew golden.
The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown.
Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings.
We started sober: are love's startled drunkards.
You hide me in your cloak of nothingness
Reflect my ghost in your glass of being
I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream
Where your eternity briefly trembles.”
-Rumi
Transparent Dream, slab formed vessels, painted in velvet underglaze, 330 H x 150 W x 65 mm D
Transparent Dream, reverse
Transparent Dream, detail. Rumi poem in spiral around flower
Transparent Dream, detail. Rumi poem in spiral around skull
“We are the mirror, as well as the face in it.
We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.
We are pain and what cures pain.
We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.
Soul of the world, no life, nor world remain,
no beautiful women and men longing.
Only this ancient love circling the holy black stone of nothing.
Where the lover is the loved, the horizon and everything within it.”
―Rumi
Frog Song, paper-clay, underglaze and underglaze pencil, 31cm H x 26cm W x 11cm D
Frog Song, paper-clay, underglaze and underglaze pencil, reverse
La Loba Series #1, Singing the Bones Back to Life, slab formed vessel, sgraffito with white slip on black clay, 15cm H x 12cm W
La Loba series #1, Singing the Bones Back to Life
La Loba series #1, Singing the Bones Back to Life
La Loba series #1, Singing the Bones Back to Life, detail
La Loba series #2, Searching the Desert for Lost Souls, slab formed vessel, sgraffito with with white slip over black clay, 20cm H x 10cm W
La Loba series #2, Searching the Desert for Lost Souls
La Loba series #2, Searching the Desert for Lost Souls, detail
La Loba series #2, Searching the Desert for Lost Souls
La Loba series #2, Searching the Desert for Lost Souls, detail
As a 2D and 3D artist, I am continuously stuck between my desire to create sculptures and my desire to paint or draw. Painting and drawing on ceramics is one way I bridge that gap, though the process can be very different.
Storytelling on ceramics is almost as old as ceramics itself, and imagery on pottery is one of the oldest art forms we have as humans. One of my current practices is to explore this ancient technique through my own fascination with mythology.