Collaborative work with artist Theodora Boorman
During Oxfordshire Artweeks 2023 I was incredibly fortunate to cross paths with the very talented Theodora. Theo is a mixed-media artist based in Woodstock, like myself, whose artwork is very much influenced by material culture, story-telling and folklore from around the world.
All potters (and probably all makers) will tell you that there are certain parts of the process that they love more than others and decorating/glazing is certainly my least favourite of the stages. So it felt like a match made in heaven when I discovered that Theo had found a love of decorating clay and wanted to do more! Roll forward a few weeks and the first pieces from our collaboration have now been completed.
The first completed piece is a lamp with incredible deer motifs all around the base. This look was achieved by the base, thrown by me, being painted in a black underglaze and then scraped back to the raw clay,, revealing the pattern in all it’s glory. A technique known as sgrafitto.
It is very hard to portray just how striking this piece is in a photo. You will love it even more in real life.
The second available piece is a large vase embellished in blue and with intertwined Ouroboros. Again done using the sgrafitto technique and all carved freehand by Theo.
A truly unique piece with an antique feel. It contrasts beautifully against the deep red of these roses but is equally as striking with a dried flower arrangement in it.
Both of these pieces are now available in the shop and we’re excited that more are in development. If you have any ideas that you would like to discuss then we would be more than happy to do so.