Strip melting vase

These are wheel thrown vases, marbled. They all have bulbous bodies that taper into thin necks. I achieved the spiraling lines on the surface by playing around with the marbling technique. The colours were achieved by the different firing temperatures.

Melting bottle vases

These are wheel thrown bottle vases. The body of the forms are slightly bulbous and taper into a thin elongated neck. Transparent over red earthenware and fired to 1175°C.

Stencil on white

This is a thrown white earthenware vase. Just berfore bisque, I apply these stenciled images onto the surface, with use of a black underglaze. These stenciled images tell a narrative story about the night of my brother's murder.

Most Wanted

This work is very simple and effective. The form was wheel thrown, wide at the shoulders and tapers into a narrow base. It was thrown with a red earthenware clay and painted with a white slip while still leather hard. I then stenciled my face, as well as 'Most Wanted' on to the surface with a black underglaze and glazed to 1080°C.

Buddha sculpture

Here is a sculpture of the Buddha. After referencing images and other sculptures of Buddha, I found that most of them were made from wood, cement, bronze and even fibre glass, but not many were made from clay. I then modeled and carved one from a lump of clay. I then made a 10 piece mould of it and slip cast it. After bisque, I painted Manganese dioxide in between the grooves on the surface to emphasize the folds and the texture on the clothing and the details in the face as well as in the sculpture as a whole. I then took it to 1080°C to harden the Manganese on the surface.

Warping vases

I enjoy Marbling clay and then throwing it because it has a different result every time. Although each piece looks the same, they all have a different pattern. The surface decoration in this work is very spontaneous and definately follows the form. The form has a bulbous form that tapers into a thin neck which is then distorted. Glazed inside and out and taken to 1080°C.

Warping vases

Here I have started to look at ways to play with and distort different vase forms. The form has a bulbous form that tapers into a thin neck which is then distorted directly after throwing, it is distorted mainly at the neck. The vase forms are all wheel thrown and turned, glazed inside and out with a transparent glaze to 1080°C.

White over Terracotta

 

Here Is a pot thrown on a Kick-wheel, thrown with a light Terracotta clay, the first piece made in Cape Town. After bisque, I painted a layer of white slip on the surface and sanded down once dried, hardened on at 1080°C.