Figurative Works
I have practiced life drawing since age 13 and later worked as a life model over 24 years. This has given me an intimate knowledge in drawing the human form.
When I began studying ceramics I learnt that many pottery terms are named after parts of the human body as in lip, shoulder, neck, belly, foot. This led me to represent the human form as a vessel in a series called 'vase becoming nude'. I also sculpt figures in slab and coil.
There is a timing to working with clay measured by the drying rate that seems compatible with the pace of human hands. Sculpting begins with wedging, kneading and pressing out a form from the damp clay, working towards a gradual refinement, possible only as the clay dries. Drawing and carving into clay is like working with soft stone, interchanging contours and lines of light and dark to represent form.
I have practiced life drawing since age 13 and later worked as a life model over 24 years. This has given me an intimate knowledge in drawing the human form.
When I began studying ceramics I learnt that many pottery terms are named after parts of the human body as in lip, shoulder, neck, belly, foot. This led me to represent the human form as a vessel in a series called 'vase becoming nude'. I also sculpt figures in slab and coil.
There is a timing to working with clay measured by the drying rate that seems compatible with the pace of human hands. Sculpting begins with wedging, kneading and pressing out a form from the damp clay, working towards a gradual refinement, possible only as the clay dries. Drawing and carving into clay is like working with soft stone, interchanging contours and lines of light and dark to represent form.