Etsy - SandpiperArtStudios Hand Made Wonky Wobbly Misshapen Pot That Looks As Though It Has Been Tossed By The Seas

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Description

The bowl in the pictures is the bowl you will receive. My pots are all hand made, wheel thrown pottery made in my back garden studio. I make small batch pottery. This bowl is number T62 & it is 5" long x 5.5" width x 3.5" high. My work is inspired by Dorset's Jurassic Coast where my partner owns a house two miles from Durdle Door & Lulworth Cove. I hope that this pot is imbued with the sea, sky & majesty of the landscape & this collection has a little bit of the rockpool about it - the jewelled gems of stones & beach glass & fossil that is found at the bottom of the pools, if you know where to look, & is different every day. The myriad of colours & textures that you find in the pools on the beach is astounding! I pick up fossils & beach glass as I walk & include a bit here & a bit there in my work, to bring the seaside inside the home & to pass a little bit of Jurassic Coast along to my customers. This collection is all a little bit distorted, a bit misshapen, wonky, as if it has been floating, lightly submerged & tossed by the sea over time. Pulled this way & that, as are the fossil rocks & beach glass that begin as one shape & end up as another, when we find them & bring them into our homes. Each bowl is different from the next; they were all thrown on a potter's wheel, the stretched & pulled & swept while in the drying stage, as the sea would pull & push the forms of the flotsam & jetsam in the water. The colours are invented by me - I mixed & combined different layers of glazes to create new colours, as the sea mixes & mingles the rocks & creatures to become something new. The pink (a mixture of three glazes) is the basis of the colours, then I added a variety of blues & other hues & textures - froth for the wave crests & fossil rock crumbled into the mix. Last off all I added a piece or two of beach glass picked up from Charmouth or Lulworth or Durdle Door beach & a glass nugget, to melt into the interior. The bowl was then over glazed with clear glaze. The bowls are meant to be more decorative that functional. Yes, they are functional, but I can't guarantee that they are dishwasher safe or microwave safe or even food safe, because I have incorporated chips of sea glass & sprinkled fossils into them! I would use them as pieces of sculpture to have around the house, positioned to catch the light. Something to ponder & make you think of the seaside. The 9th wedding anniversary is commemorated with a gift of pottery. These bowls will arrive gift wrapped in random, pretty boxes that contain tissue & sustainable packaging or sometimes I use bubble wrap or other wrapping if I receive a delivery - I'd rather re-use plastic than throw it away, so you might get polystyrene! Usually it is shredded paper with tissue. Made with love, x Hand Made Wonky Wobbly Misshapen Pot That Looks As Though It Has Been Tossed By The Seas, Inspired Dorset's Jurassic Coast, Bowl, Planter