Delight in Disorder II
Thrown and hand built stoneware with oxide and glaze, 2025
Dimensions: 40cm h x 23cm diameter
Delight in Disorder II is part of a series of vessels that reveals the poetry of archetypal forms through textural interventions. The meandering textural line caresses the shoulders of the vase, slowly cascading across the piece revealing different aspects of the form.
Inspiring the name of this work, while making this piece I kept running through the lines from Robert Herrick’s poem Delight in Disorder:
“A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction;
An erring lace, which here and there
Entralls…”
Working in an improvisational and expressionistic style with applied sinuous texture, the vessel form is revealed, obscured, embraced and transformed by these interventions. This vessel seems to be slinking, disrobing itself of the texture revealing a different glaze form underneath. Hand built with some thrown elements, the hand is very important to the integrity of the work. The texture is worked into the ribbon which entwines the piece.
“I see a wild civility:
Do more bewitch me, than when art
Is too precise in every part.”
Glaze plays an important part in these works, it is applied in layers and encouraged to flow freely to compliment the animated movement in the texture. Each vessel is an investigation where no surface is the same and no two works are alike as each piece seems to lead on to another inquiry in different clay bodies, texture and glaze combination. The final effect is a dynamic vessel sculpture where the viewer is constantly discovering a new detail within the work.
Each piece is individually created and no two are alike as they all vary slightly in textural application and proportion. The glazes are applied in layers in order to create the distinctive meanderings and alchemic combinations of colour tones. Each piece is individual and a true work of art.
Delight in Disorder II
Thrown and hand built stoneware with oxide and glaze, 2025
Dimensions: 40cm h x 23cm diameter
Delight in Disorder II is part of a series of vessels that reveals the poetry of archetypal forms through textural interventions. The meandering textural line caresses the shoulders of the vase, slowly cascading across the piece revealing different aspects of the form.
Inspiring the name of this work, while making this piece I kept running through the lines from Robert Herrick’s poem Delight in Disorder:
“A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction;
An erring lace, which here and there
Entralls…”
Working in an improvisational and expressionistic style with applied sinuous texture, the vessel form is revealed, obscured, embraced and transformed by these interventions. This vessel seems to be slinking, disrobing itself of the texture revealing a different glaze form underneath. Hand built with some thrown elements, the hand is very important to the integrity of the work. The texture is worked into the ribbon which entwines the piece.
“I see a wild civility:
Do more bewitch me, than when art
Is too precise in every part.”
Glaze plays an important part in these works, it is applied in layers and encouraged to flow freely to compliment the animated movement in the texture. Each vessel is an investigation where no surface is the same and no two works are alike as each piece seems to lead on to another inquiry in different clay bodies, texture and glaze combination. The final effect is a dynamic vessel sculpture where the viewer is constantly discovering a new detail within the work.
Each piece is individually created and no two are alike as they all vary slightly in textural application and proportion. The glazes are applied in layers in order to create the distinctive meanderings and alchemic combinations of colour tones. Each piece is individual and a true work of art.