title: Wrap your arms around me.
Thrown porcelain. Glazed bowl, unglazed 'arms'.
Inspired by a drive trip to the Similans, Thailand.

title: Fat Spout. Pour Me Out.
20cm high x 27cm wide x 14cm deep

I know I've been doing lots of functional ceramics lately. I think I'm obsessed with having beautiful, handmade things around me all the time.
Fat Spout. Pour Me Out has a crackle glaze with blue tributaries at the rims. There's a big dribble of glaze under the spout like a pearl, suspended.

title: Ribbed bowl

17.5cm wide x 9.5cm high

A beautiful ribbed bowl that allows the glaze to pool at the foot. I like this effect so much, so I've started cutting the foot with a small lip to catch the glaze. Inside is a slightly citrus peel texture and a beautiful blend of raw colors.

 Title: Galaxy Landscape

thrown porcelain

15cm wide x 8cm high

This beautiful, small bowl has an amazing, surreal landscape created as the glazes dripped and overlay eachother down the outside of the bowl. then pooled at the foot. Inside is a blue pool with a comet reflected at its edge.

title: Comfort jugs

Thrown porcelain

Mat duck-egg blue lower glaze

Unglazed, oxidized stripe

Clear crackle upper glaze

Height = 14.5 and 9 cm

I like the silken feel of the thick, mat glaze.  These colours are not my usual choice but I like the cosy, homely mood they evoke. The unglazed, raw stripe has become a soft orange colour which creates a bright and happy tone. They look  they're waiting for a bunch of daisys to be plonked in them and set on a gingham table cloth.  Coupled with the traditional curvacious form the jugs become symbols of comfort.

Title: Starlight Twist

Thrown porcelain

Oil-spot glaze on the body and lid with Clear Blue for the twisted handle.

completed: January 2013
 15 cm  high x 15 cm wide

Starlight Twist is a great success. This lid fits so perfectly, I'm very proud of it. It's a perfect pot for adding scented bath-salts.
Bought by Gretchen as a gift for her friend Carmen's 40th birthday

Title: When Life Gives You Lemons

Hand-built porcelain.

October 2012

Crack glaze under translucent glaze.
26cm hight x 15cm wide x 7cm deep

This jar was inspired by my bountiful lemon tree at Erawaan Escape.
I love it when the glaze gathers into a jewel of a drip, like it has on both sides of this jar.
Gifted to Nancy in Hong Kong

This was my first spirit house. It was commissioned by Rusty L. As Noi had designed and built and decorated his country house in the Moroccan style, it was appropriate that he had a Moroccan style Spirit House.
A Spirit House is believed by Thais to attract the spirits that would otherwise take up residence in your own home. The Spirit House should be attractive to the spirits and also well maintained.
This house has a wheel turned dome but is otherwise slab built. The spires are delicate but other than that, this spirit house should last centuries.
I really enjoyed the challenge of building this but love the idea of combining the two cultures like this. More combinations planned.

A Thai Spirit House.

This was done especially for my friend and collector Gretchen, who loves dogs as much as I do.
Gretchen had an old Thai wooden spirit house that nobody would repair. So I made her a new one that would last for centuries.

It was especially difficult to glaze, given it's size. But I'm very happy with the result. The rich red brown colour had multiple dippings and I had to dust off the footprints to highlight them.

Two abalone guys dress up in tuxedo and pretend to be vases

The annual KIS International School Charity Art competition is scheduled for April 27th, 2012. the theme is TOGETHER. I've created these simple, elegant cylindrical forms with a ripple down their sides. When placed together, they form an interesting negative space between them.
Their fleshy ripples are full of movement and fluidity. Their white collars also invite a caress along their silken contours.
The jackets' glaze is an oil-spot Temmoku, highlighted with a pearly clear glaze that breaks up on different surfaces. The jacket shares a likeness with an abalone shell and the ripples are the flesh feeling its way out of the shell. The shirt glaze is a flat white, like clean fresh-cooked seafood.. Can you tell I'm hungry as I write this?
Recently bought by Gretchen W.