Rice Jar

We eat a lot of rice.
The rice jar is always on the kitchen counter. It should be beautiful. It should feel good when you touch it. It's about 25cm H x 25cm square

Bowls for baking

I love baking and wanted my own bowls. Imaging baking delicious food in beautiful bowls that you made yourself and they feel good to hold! These are hand built, not wheel thrown. So they dont feel 'perfect'. I'm aware of holding something hand-made and it makes me feel good to hold it. Put that sort of energy into your baking!

Planter pot

We always have bunches of orchids in the house. They last much longer than cut flowers and are pretty cheap and readily available, here. I made this bowl especially to show off the orchids

Octojar

This jar is a little scary, a little attractive at the same time.
The colours are dizzying.
The size a little daunting.
The tentacles a little creepy.
Yet I still like it.

It's about 30cm high, wide and long.

Garden Snail Tea Pot

Height = 33cm
width = 23cm
length = 33cm

Glazed porcelain


Although the spout of my giant blue garden snail, could pour if it wanted to, this guy was designed to be a garden sculpture. He has holes in the base to allow rainwater to escape. I plan to cement him onto the garden wall.
Look at that glaze on his neck! Here's a snail with style.

Funky Fungi bowls

These dessert bowls were designed from the fungi seen growing in deep forests.


The sculptural hand-built shape means they're just as useful for decorating as they are for eating out of. "Let me just grab some art to eat out of"

The mat glaze deepens into a deep green glass at the bottom of the bowl. There's actually so many subtle colors coming out through the light.

Another Ginger Jar

There's something about a lidded pot, that a potter loves. They're irresistible to make. This jar was thrown on the wheel and hand trimmed with a slight fluted finish. The oil-spot glaze worked really well to bring out the subtle irregularities that come from hand trimming.
This is my favorite glaze.

Catch your tears

Black is beautiful.
Add some dimples and highlights. How can you resist pouring over this beauty.
He holds 4 glasses worth of what ever you want to pour, from a perfect pout.

Bowls and a jug

There's still a fascination with functional beauty.
A jug with plenty of hidden volume and a lip that pours without dribbles and an elegant handle or functional. But it also feels good to hold and looks beautiful.
The bowls are perfect as servers or salad bowls; light and unique. It just feels good to have beautiful, hand-made things in use.

Standing Stack of Loopdy-loops

Height = 35cm
diameter = 20cm
glazed porcelain
This leaning tower of flat bands, shaped into star formations and perforated, has holes all over to stick things out of. It's already sculptural, but other items could be added to it, sticking out of it. I haven't decided what, yet. I'll have to find 'stuff' on the beach, to finish it.

A posey of sea trumpet flowers

Height = 20cm
Diameter = 30cm
These Sea Trumpet flowers have a wonderful squirming maze of stems inside, binding them all together.
The trumpet mouths are rimmed in a dry, brittle edge that contrasts with their smooth deep funnels.

A tower of sea trumpt flowers

Height = 35cm
Diameter = 22cm
Ceramic porcelain
These sea trumpet flowers are all growing out of a central stem.
The high glossy blue glaze helps add to their liquid flowing form

Barrel sponges 2010

Tall sponge
Height=39cm
diameter = 20

Short sponge
Height = 20cm
diameter = 24cm

I saw these sponges while diving around the gulf of Chumporn and Similan Islands. They can grow big enough to hold a man inside. But these ones are also quite close to real sizes.
The pink cup at their centers is shallow. Most of the sponge is hollow. They make great tactile, sculptural show pieces.
The glaze on the outside is a dull mat green. The inside is fleshy pink.

Ratty 2011

Some play I was doing at the school studio to use up some terracotta clay. I made this animated-looking rat sculpture. He now sits in the garden. I hope he'll collect moss.