Gentle Seas cup

Description

Handmade using white or terracotta earthenware clay, decorated with coloured engobe slips and oxides and finished using a glossy glaze. For purely decorative pieces areas may be left unglazed and finished with a wax. I work in small batches mixing the colours as I go, therefore sets may vary slightly.

I rolled out a slab of clay, cut out the body and base using a card template and made the form. To decorate i stamped out a textured pattern on the clay and then covered it in a wash. I used various blues/greens adding some playful dots.

My inspiration was the sea, looking at the colours, the flow and incorporating it into this design.