This wobbly, blobby, misshapen pot is completely hand made & hand glazed. It is a one of a kind piece of art ceramics made in stoneware clay with a variety of layered, high quality Botz glazes in shades of blue, white & green - the colours of the Dorset sea. The measurements are: 5 wide opening x 4 high x 5.5 to the outer edges which are domed. You could stand a plant pot in it, but it would be a shame to cover the lovely interior. Tossed by the Sea! That’s the theme of this collection of ceramic pots & bowls. All hand made, wheel thrown pottery made in my back garden studio. I make small batch pottery. The Tossed by the Sea collection represents the sea tossed flotsam & jetsam found on the beach. The small bowl in the pictures is the bowl you will receive. All of my work is inspired by either the woodlands where I go foraging or Dorset’s Jurassic Coast where my partner owns a house two miles from Durdle Door & Lulworth Cove. My work is imbued with the sea, sky & majesty of the landscape & this collection has a little bit of the rockpool about it - the jewelled gems of stones & beach glass & fossil that is found at the bottom of the pools, if you know where to look, & is different every day. The myriad of colours & textures that you find in the pools on the beach is astounding! I pick up fossils & beach glass as I walk & include a bit here & a bit there in my work, to bring the seaside inside the home & to pass a little bit of Jurassic Coast along to my customers. This collection is all a little bit distorted, a bit misshapen, wonky, as if it has been floating, lightly submerged & tossed by the sea over time. Pulled this way & that, as are the fossil rocks & beach glass that begin as one shape & end up as another, when we find them & bring them into our homes. Each bowl is different from the next; they were all thrown on a potter’s wheel, the stretched & pulled & swept while in the drying stage, as the sea would pull & push the forms of the flotsam & jetsam in the water. The colours are invented by me - I mixed & combined different layers of glazes to create new colours, as the sea mixes & mingles the rocks & creatures to become something new. The green (a mixture of two glazes) is the basis of the colours, then I added a variety of blues & other hues & textures - froth for the wave crests & fossil rock crumbled into the mix. Last off all I added a piece or two of beach glass picked up from Charmouth or Lulworth or Durdle Door beach, to melt into the interior. The bowl was then over glazed with clear glaze. The bowls are meant to be more decorative that functional. Yes, they are functional, but I can’t guarantee that they are dishwasher safe or microwave safe or even food safe, because I have incorporated chips of sea glass & sprinkled fossils into them! I would use them as pieces of sculpture to have around the house, positioned to catch the light. Something to ponder & make you think of the seaside. It has a very drippy, textured, rustic
