Drift wood Mobile

I made this at my beachside property The Plantation, in Chumporn. The beach always gets lots of flotsam washed up. I enjoy scavenging for interesting pieces.
I made these mobiles. Watching them turn is a meditation in itself.

Whale Dreaming

Detail of colour, added materials and negative space.

Top view.
This is where we see the whale.

Zoom in on negative space.
Ropes and vines, threaded through one of the holes.

Front view.

This sculpture, made at the same time as the following two sculptures was so much fun to make. They all were, really. But I loved making something so big. The studio in Phuket where I was able to work manufactures ceramics for hotels. They have huge gas fired kilns, the size of a small bedroom. Size was not a limit for me.
Whale Dreaming has the same colours as the Mermaids' Tango; Rich Dark Caramel brown and contrasting light gold created with melted glass over the glaze.
I've added ropes and vines that were washed up on the beach. These have been woven through the holes and rise up through the whale.
Dimensions = H 45cm x L 65cm x w 30cm
Porcelain and mixed media

Starlight Reflected on the Ripples of the Sea.

Lying down, mouth up and open.

Ripples of light.

Standing up.

Details of glaze.
The moss green is varied in depth creating the speckles. Melted glass over the green glaze has created the liquid Lapis Blue crystals.

I know it's a long title, but the texture and the colour inspired me to poetry.
This sculpture was glazed upside down. The unglazed foot creates a contrast of textures and colour. The interior is dark mat brown. The exterior has so many colours of deep green and vivid blue moving in fluid ripples around the form.
I like it best lying on it's side with the mouth lifted up. But it can also be stood up on the mouth.
Dimensions H 60cm x W 40cm
Porcelain clay. Coiled
Made in Phuket.

Mermaids' Tango

Front View.
Each piece has a few squiggles. The base is hollow.

Close up of negative spaces, created by barely touching parts. Also the woody vines that I've wrapped around the pieces.

Top View.
The swollen bases come together at the top to create a fluid line.

Mermaids' Tango is made of two separate sculptures that fit against each other perfectly. Between the two pieces are negative spaces resembling bubbles, rising up through water. The bubbles have been created by the turbulence of the tango.
Wrapped around each piece are some woody vines that I found washed up on the beach.
Dimensions = H 55cm x W 70cm

Nudi Branch Condo

size: 40cm high x 28cm wide.
Glazed porceline.
This ocean habitat is a fantasy sculpture. Micro nudi Branches might take up residence in this aquatic condo.
I created a thick textured surface and glazed these in a glossy caramel oxide glaze. The tops of each tube were dipped in a cobalt slip before firing. The whole sculpture has a reference to historical pottery, in the rounded vessel shape. However this piece has no functional attributes, other than sculptural.

Flotsam and Jetsam

This piece was created after a walk on along Mai Khao beach, Phuket, when I found the cut-up piece of plastic from a fuel container. The 'found' piece is in the top right corner, stuck onto the canvas with super glue.
Size: 60x80cm. for each canvas. Framed separately.
Medium: Acrylic paint, super glue and found beach trash.

I wanted to evoke an 'other-worldly' feel, as I think the ocean is another world. It was the ocean that inspired this piece, starting with the trash I collected.
I also wanted to play with cubism. I hoped the angles would also represent a school of swimming fish. The two colours are a contrast of sand deep sea, light and dark. The shapes are a contrast on organic and man-made objects and their harmonious blend.

Laurie-Sea flowers

While scuba diving with Laurie as a buddy in the Thai Gulf, She pointed out a beautiful purple anemone in the process of closing. She mimed that I could sculpt it from clay. So I have.
One of the flowers is blue on the outside and mostly yellow on the interior. The other is green on the outside and mostly pink on the inside. I wanted the flowing, fleshy feel of the anemone.

starfish take a walk

Here is a family of four starfish. They all got up and went for an assertive, happy walk.
They can be grouped in any number of stories, or placed inside each other. They make a beautiful sound when struck due to their bell-shape. The colours are gold and copper, rich earth brown and black.

Coral colony

Sorry about the colour here, but this colony of coral is a really vivid cobolt blue that shimmers as though under water. There are a few black sea-worms crawling in and out of holes, making their homes. Some of the baubles are suspended over others and there are lots of spaces in the middle. So althogh actually heavy and large, the impression is of a weightless-ness, nest of coral.

Sea Bouys

These guys are not finished yet. But they are the first to come out of the Phuket studio.
They're not finished, because I want to find some ropes washed up on the beach and weave the coloured ropes through these blue spheres.
They look all loose, but the glaze has stuck them together into one sculpture. All together, there's 13 spheres.