Swimming Fish Vase (large)

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 and used card templates to cut out the body and base. To decorate i used paper resist to blank out the fish and the sun and then brushed on the blue in a ombré like finish.

I was inspired by a painting my mum did a long time ago. It was all about swimming against the tide, being yourself and being seen. I just felt drawn to re-create that story in clay.