We completed the woodkiln in March, with its first firing in April 2019.
Working on new bowls with pinched indents.
"Stillness 3" Finalist, Annual Wallace Art Awards 2018, Porcelain, stains, sand/gravel and wooden board.
This bowl sits on my kitchen bench, and is a favourite. Fired in the woodkiln at Waiohiki over a year ago, shino on stoneware with additions.
Copper red glaze on stoneware clay with sand and ricebubbles. The shape inspired by limpet shells seen on the beach in Porirua.
Work from last firing, using a dark clay with shino glaze.
"Still life for Molly" Finalist in Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award in Whakatane 2018.
"Still life" Finalist in Portage Ceramic Awards 2017.
Very excited for my work "Still life" to be selected as a finalist and one of 3 highly commended works in the HB Art Review, at CAN Gallery in Napier.
My entry in NZ Potters Tableware Exhibition at Toi Gallery, Pataka, Porirua June/July 2017.
"Expresso" Porcelain and sand, celedon glaze.
Latest work from kiln, coffee jug with tiny beakers for that espresso moment. Stoneware and beach sand.
Inspired by Bill's wire bucket. An old rusted paint tin with number 8 wire handle. Shino with sand and wire handles.
New work from Damage and Repair series. Porcelain with beach sand, cut then stapled while wet, copper red glaze.
New vases, porcelain with shingle from the beach, collected at low tide.
"Conversations". Finalist in Portage Ceramic Awards 2016, exhibited at Te Uru, Auckland. Terracotta and porcelain with beach shingle, reduction fired with porcelain pieces woodfired, no glaze.
"Drawing Circles and Lines". Exhibited in "East" at Hastings City Art Gallery 2016-17. Porcelain with sand, shino glaze.