Make an Impression

Nature's imprint
This week we have been busy creating lots of new ceramic works and doing loads of experiments, mostly about making impressions. 
Taking inspiration from nature we first went fossicking in forests and combing beaches to find interesting objects to use in this process.
Pictured left are some bowls Cass made from impressions off a coconut found washed up on Shelly Beach. This is such a fun process and we have used numerous things like driftwood, bark, banksias, stones, petrified wood, shells, leaves, seed pods, etc and you can see more of the initial results in the pictures below. 
(Click on the image to see the larger version.)

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The Art of Spooning...
We have also been busy making spoons - many, many spoons!
We have experimented with turning some of our impressions into spoons with some great initial results. These are yet to be fired but we are hooked!  they are rather addictive to make for some reason and I in particular am having a great time creating these.
Fellow ceramicist Kim Foale from frogpondsrock and host of Sunday Ceramics also knows the strange spoon making addiction and she and I are doing a swap - I am very excited and can't wait to receive Kim's spoon.
Pictured right are just some of the latest batch - using the matchbox as size reference, and that is the great piece of petrified wood on the left - the spoon in the bottom righthand corner is the one our son made - getting the whole family involved! 

Not only nature...
After our initial imprints using natural objects and surfaces we also decided to make imprints of other things such as road surfaces, fabric, metal, plastics, even my son's matchbox cars!

Once they are glazed and fired we will post some images of the results - can't wait! 
This is such a great process and one we are continuing to develop and weave into our art practice - with some awesome projects based on this on the horizon ... stay tuned!


Well, it's been a big week of creating, with an even bigger one coming up, and check out Sunday Ceramics if you are interested to see what other ceramic artists are doing in their studios...
.... so now I'm off to make some more spoons!

 

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