Perhaps my most ambitious project of 2015 – a highly detailed, sculptural ‘Ocean Vessel’.  It was weeks in the making, and an enormous relief when it survived its many slow stages of drying, carving and firing to emerge (eventually) in fine form – as though I needn’t ever have worried…

Forming

Sculpting

Sculpting

Sculpting

Sculpting

Step 1

Carving

Carving the surface

Carving the surface – inside and out

Carving the surface

Carving the surface – inside the form

Carving the surface – inside and out

Carving the surface

Carving the surface – inside the form

Done!

Seascape Vessel

Seascape Vessel

Seascape Vessel

Seascape Vessel

Seascape Vessel