Sunrise Sculpture

Decorated with Iron, black and yellow slip, with finger spots and a sgraffito design. It is one of a set of six, all of which represent my love of Dartmoor National Park, it's rugged beauty and its wild landscape and weather. Dotted with ancient woodlands with oak's twisted by the wind and rain, granite tor's surrounded by mists over rolling hills covered in bracken and heather carved by the many rocky streams and rivers, give this place a quite mysterious feeling. This is part of what makes Dartmoor so special to me and inspired this work. I work in earthenware clay and use an old, 1950's treadle wheel to loosely throw my work on. I decorate my pieces with clay slips coloured with oxides and my designs are expressed by using sgraffito as a method and often painted, again with coloured clay slips. Much of what I use is found in the landscape around me, it helps me feel closer to the work I am making, and for me gives it more meaning. I have always been close to the land and nature and the use of simple designs of a more abstract and expressionist nature give me the freedom to depict in simple terms how I feel.