The ceramics shown in this gallery serve as an exemplar of genre and may have been sold. Similar pieces are available for sale or can be commissioned.
Landscape ceramics
Wheal Prosper Engine House 1860
This work draws its inspiration from the Cornish landscape and comprises mainly Engine House Bottles.
The form of the bottles is influenced by the architecture of the pump houses for the now discarded tin mines. Different clays are combined to create the impression of rock falls, decorative geometric marks refer to industrial activity and the use of clay slips and metal oxides echo the colour and texture of the landscape. Some bottles are dark and threatening as in wet cliffs and caves and others suggest reflected light from the sea.
TECHNICAL
The work is once fired in a reduction atmosphere in a gas kiln to Orton cone 11.
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