Inspiration for this project has come from a range of sources, I have been particularly drawn to the concrete ceilings, that hang above the studio space and are dotted around the workshop spaces. Their implied texture and patterns not only remind me of the facade of brutalist post-war architecture but it links with the types of patterns and textures I am looking at for inspiration. The patterns on the ceiling are similar to the large Sika deer bone sitting on my studio desk or could be confused with the texture of rocks. The bone is brown and mottled with pits and broken parts that give a glimpse into the honeycombed interior structure, the insides look like coral and I liken them to the Magma glaze I have been using on my small thrown vessels. I am inspired by the environment around me, the trees the have sat barren outside of the windows; particularly in winter before all of the buds begin to form the branches take on the shape of other objects found in nature and the human body; veins, a fan coral, slime moulds and microscopic organisms. I am particualr interested in moss the lichens because of their texture and I have tried to mimic this in my tests with puff binder and watercolour on paper as well as on the ceramic vessels I have created using glaze.
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