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.

Ocean Heart

Ocean Heart was created at KIS using our own glazes. It is going to be auctioned on March 31st for charity.
The design is based around the veins and aorta that feed a heart and move us forward through our lives. The blue dripping effect is the oceans life blood - not draining away, just flowing, as blood should. Being blue blood (oxygenated?) makes it more aquatic and more pleasing than red blood. The flow affect is liquid delight. Is it dripping down or flowing up? Is the cup half full or half empty?
The sculpture is decorative. To add anything in would be too busy.

Sexy dessert

8 bowls, various dimensions. All Sexy, especially when filled with desserts.

Look at these colors, so much depth and luminescence in the dark glazes!

Each bowl has a golden lip. The raised, stylized design is unique to each bowl and represents the movement of swirling black water. The bowls are hand pinched and formed so that the sense of touch can share a delight with taste and sight as desserts are eaten.

Slug does Yoga

Detail of color, unglazed spikes, interior and exterior

A gaping mouth, or an opening gesture? Yoga Spike is versatile.

Top view

Downward Dog Pose is one of my favorites. It's what this spiky slug appears to be doing. His rippling flanges are practically moving like the flamenco skirt they resemble.
Hight 23cm x length 44cm x width 20cm

Bubble warts

Detail of color, showing the un-glazed bubble warts, ringed in orange from the oxide in the green glaze. The textured line soak up the transparent glazes beautifully.
Top view
Inside the 'bowl' shows a close-up of the contrasting textures and rich colors
Interior view
Bubble warts are another practical sculpture. Sit it one way and it's a sea slug sculture. Turned over and it is a serving dish. Seafood pasta?
I'm still not bored with finding new, interesting ways to disguise the unglazed foot. And the bubbles are beautifully accentuated by the burnt orange rings.

Manta Mantra

Seen from all postures
Lye him down and see him smile
Stand him up!
Height 53cm x width 30cm x depth 30cm
ON a dive trip to Similan Islands with friends, our primary objective was to encounter some Manta rays. We chanted. Our mantra;MANTA. It worked. We got to experience some wonderful, up-close moments some of these graceful, beautiful, playful giants. It was a magic moment.
Manta Mantra is, once again, a sculpture to be appreciated from all angles. He can lie down, giving the image of flying/swimming. The unglazed foot reveals the cavity and feeding mandibles. Or he can stand up on the mandibles, in the posture of a dive.
The manta has some deep, highlighted cracks in his body. The cracks add a thoughtful dimension to the sculpture, hinting at the cracks in the fragile environment he swims in. But these cracks also add beauty and are highlighted with the liquid blue glaze that I love to use.

O'Keef's slug

Long view

Length 68cm x height 12cm x width 20cm
Bottom view
Close up of color detail from top to interior
Georgia O'Keef's Slug
I was inspired by the suggestive subject of Georgia O'Keef's paintings. I wanted to do a similar thing with my ceramics. Instead of her floral subject, I've also adapted this theme to suit my familiar topic of marine life. I think I was successful in my adaptation of O'Keef's imagery. The pink folding lips are not subtle. I also continue to enjoy the appreciation of the negative space in the vessel.
Her slug, here, is a sculpture that can be appreciated from all angles. She has no bottom. It's fun to turn her around and up-side-down, to get changing perspectives of her curves.