Bifurcate Vase 1
Flow 2021
2020 - 2021
Having been sent home and confined to quarters and with none of the usual distractions I created all the works for Flow, which became my largest exhibition to date.
The exhibition Flow presents a development of forms thrown on the wheel then altered as the porcelain is still in a very plastic state. The form of a trumpet is altered to create two or three lobes reminiscent of the shape of a flower or leaf.
The works are made of either Lumina or Southern Ice porcelain or coarse, dark, iron-rich, blended stoneware clays. Many of the works were gas reduction fired to achieve the various surface finishes from the dark metallic surfaces to the pale ice blue qingbai glaze. All works were high fired to 1280°C - 1300°C and are thus watertight.
The exhibition also features a work-specific Ikebana arrangement by Sogetsu Ikebana teacher Vernisher Wooh.
Ikebana
Several of the works were purchased for use with Ikebana arrangements and examples of current and previous works may be seen on the Ikebana page.
Soliflore Vase Shakti : : Winter Arrangement Eryngium and Gypsophila
Surface Treatments
Southern Ice Porcelain
The porcelain works feature a wide range of glazes from the rich blue-black of a tsuki-yo glaze and the black tenmoku glazes to the pale celadons, ice blue qingbai and mint green matte crystalline glazes.
For more images and further information on the nature, origins and qualities of porcelain, including Southern Ice porcelain, see the Southern Ice porcelain page.
Glazes
This exhibition features some recently developed glazes. The matte crystalline glaze on the bifurcate vases produces a yellow band around the rim cascading down the walls through shades of turquoise and blue and pooling into a deep amber glass in the base where crystals form.
