SandpiperArtStudios Wonky Wobbly Lumpy Glazed Blue & White Pot With Seaside Inspired Colouring Rockpools Interior
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Tossed by the Sea! That's the theme of this collection of ceramic pots & bowls. All hand made, wheel thrown pottery made in my back garden studio. I make small batch pottery. The Tossed by the Sea collection represents three batches of pottery. This one is T121. The bowl in the photographs is the bowl you will receive. It is a shallow, lopsided bowl that is 3 high & is 3.5 wide & quite small - the right size to stand a very small plant pot in, although it would be a shame to do so due to its lovely interior which looks like a rockpool. I made two at the same time (see last pic). The other is in another listing. It is T120. All of my work is inspired by either the woodlands where I go foraging or Dorset's Jurassic Coast where my partner owns a house two miles from Durdle Door & Lulworth Cove. My work 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 green (a mixture of two 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, to melt into the interior. The bowls were then over glazed with clear glaze. This would make a great trinket bowl, or nut bowl, or a pot to keep shells in. Or you could keep it as a piece of sculpture in its own right. I use them as pieces of sculpture around my 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
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