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Inspired by mother nature. ❤️ mud ❤️ heat. Probably a 🦎Here: find art & menstrual health awareness 🤷‍♀️💛

That lil waterfall of blue. I gotta wonder if it c

That lil waterfall of blue. I gotta wonder if it culminated there as a result of the slight movement of the pink celedon above, and the way it moved because of the slippy finger smudge I left behind to communicate the wetness the clay once had.
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Close up photograph of the bottom half of a wheel thrown ceramic cup. The top half of the square crop photograph is translucent pink over dark chocolate brown clay. There are subtle horizontal ridges in the clay made obvious by the pooling of the glaze in the troughs between the ridges, which are in turn both made more prominent and darker. There is a thin green line at the hip of the cup, which has pooled rivulets of pale blue and midway through the green band, and yellow along the top and bottom edge.
The bottom half of the photograph shows off the Rick dark chocolate brown of the clay, and the shape of the base of the cup is hinted at by the tapering of the form to the bottom of the image. There are lairs of breasts inscribed into the clay, the left pair facing left, and the right pair facing right.

A little bit pink. 💘 . Photograph shows three p

A little bit pink. 💘
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Photograph shows three pink cups glazed in pink, with various illustrations carved into the.
The cup at the front lays on its side to show the subtle sgrafitto breasts of all sizes adorning bottom 1/5 of the mug. The top 4/5 are painted in pink celedon style glaze, so the wheel thrown rings and prints of the artist are still visible. There is a thin green line between the pink glaze and the raw chocolate brown clay. The base of the cup has been carved with concentric circles, and stamped with the artists stamp.
In the background, in soft focus, are two other pink mugs from the same chocolate brown clay. The top 7/8ths of the cups have first vwwn painted in white underglaze, before the pink celedon like glaze was applied. The mug on the left has a carved semi reclining figure with breasts, long hair and large buttock and thighs. The mug on the right has a seated forward leaning figure with long big hair and has been left unglazed to highlight the contrast between the dark clay and white underglaze.

There's this incredibly narcissistic part of me th

There's this incredibly narcissistic part of me that is thrilled to pieces that my finger prints are captured next to this puddle of delicious glaze, embedded in delectable dark chocolate clay... for possibly decades, maybe even centuries?? 😈🥳🤓 It's a pretty chunky bit of vitrified mud now, I'd be surprised if much could destroy it... 😏☺️🤭
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Detail photograph of an indistinguishable ceramic piece. The image is roughly top half in focus, bottom half out of focus. The top half shows the textured detail of a cut, dark chocolate clay coloured surface. Taking up the middle 1/2 section of the top 50% is shiny black glaze, within which is an amorphous black hole. There is red blue and yellow glaze "bursting" and "pooling" at the front of the surface (direct centre of image). In the raw clay to the right of the hole can be seen some half fingerprints of the artist.

Man... I'm gonna miss this green running glaze 😭😭😭.
And.. Silver lining.. New experinments to come. But check it out close up. Dunno if I'm alone in seeing things in that last two shots? 🤔 I see an evil uterus 😂😂 just me then?! 🤣🤣🤣 It is being contained and surrounded in beauty though.. So.. That's something? 🤔.
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Series of close up photographs of blue green turquoise yellow glaze. The base tones are a rich dark blue, with permeating dribbles of turquoise running into a seashore line of pale blues and pollen yellow. The colours seem to 'move' into each other, undulating over the smooth and curved surface of the buttercream coloured clay, a sliver of which can be seen along the bottom of the images in all but the first.

Our turn in the blossoms. Was such a warm da for w

Our turn in the blossoms. Was such a warm da for winter.. there were a few groups up there today.. Busiest I've seen it. Found a little spot and set the timer. Not quite what I envisioned either.. But, I had to be quick as I misjudged the light and I is already tired from wheel throwing today. ⏱️🥄🥄🥄
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Photograph of two white adults about to kiss obscured by blossoms. One has a dark beard, and short cropped mid brown hair and the other shoulder length pink wavy hair.
They are surrounded by flowers lit up like falling snowflakes.

Left these lil friends at @the_gooby_goose today.

Left these lil friends at @the_gooby_goose today.
Hope their new family finds them soon. 😍😁
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Photograph of chunky garved grey and black mug on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. The mug in centre focus is laying on its side showing its three carved feet with love hearts imprinted on their "soles/souls"
The clay is a dark concrete warm grey colour, with black glaze on the top half of the outside of the mug, whilst the base remains raw of glaze. It has been carved to form irregular geometric facets on the outside, almost like a precious carved stone.

Love seeing my heart pieces in their new homes. Ho

Love seeing my heart pieces in their new homes. How perfect, in the sun, amongst the gums 😍👌☀️😁
📷@thetitclub
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Photograph of a pink and green hand made mug on a tree stump fence. The mug is an upturned gumnut shape, and has been illustrated with a figure, seated cross legged, with horoscope inspired points on head, knees and ankle, and dashes joining the dots.

Just popped some of these little dishes on my site

Just popped some of these little dishes on my site. Link in bio since there's nudie bits 🤭🤫
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Photograph series of ten small hand made pink and black trinket dishes.
1- illustrated with two curvaceous breastfed bodies, thr one on the left nuzzling into the one on the right.
2- torso from behind, shoulder blades to mid thigh, big booty cheeks.
3- abstract bird of paradise inspired swirls
4- full curvaceous body with enlarged breasts, laying half reclined, celebratory squiggles eminating from the chest.
5- curvaceous body with breasts, from head to mid thigh, looking down at belly.
6- a curvaceous figure with seated cross legged with a vulva exposed under the crossed ankles.
7- portrait of a bearded face, with sharp cheeks and big lips.
8- two breasts with a head partially obscured below.
9- two figures with breasts from head to mid thigh. The left figure is nuzzled into the chest of the right figure, the right figure abs long hair and an arching back.
10- a torso, bottom and thighs from behind. The drawing has geometric lines carved to create some three dimensionality.

Subtle details in the dribbles. . Macro photograph

Subtle details in the dribbles.
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Macro photograph of dripping glaze detail. The lip of the cup has pastel blue, with veins of charcoal grey and black. A lot of the texture of this glaze has the appearance of agate stone, with dendritic crista line veins of dark glaze running through pastels. Along the midline of the shot horizontally runs and undulating wavelike line of dribbling vibrant Royal blue. Immediately under the blue is a condensed line of charcoal glaze spotted with small specks of pastel blue, gradually fading to bigger 'cells' of a vintage /duck egg/ slightly dirty blue, adding to the effect of agate/stonelike qualities.

Ice breaker hand hugging tumbler on my website now

Ice breaker hand hugging tumbler on my website now. Think I'll get some detail shots of this glaze later today... If I can get out of bed. Been overdoing it a tad lately..
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Photograph of a mulit blue glazed wheel thrown ceramic tumbler. It has a bulbous bottom ⅓, an indent for a thumb to rest, then straight walls up to the lip. The bottom ⅔ are glazed in mottled slightly greenish muddy blue with pale blue specks, and the top ⅓ rim is glazed in a slightly paler blue that runs and pools into an almost cristaline pale blue and vibrant royal blue creating a 'crashing waves' effect.

Can't help it. One more 😏🖤 . Hig contrast, s

Can't help it. One more 😏🖤
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Hig contrast, shallow focus, black and white photograph of a clump of 5-6 almond blossoms on an out of focus diagonal branch. The branch runs top left to bottom right, the background is almost solid black other than a few very out of focus blossom clumps abstractly behind the flowers which are slightly off centre, towards the bottom right.

These little cuppos are perfect for : herbal tea,

These little cuppos are perfect for : herbal tea, neat spirits, on ice spirits, piccolo, machiatto, drinks that are good to sit and sip and ponder and discuss. 😊 Named Messier 8 glaze after a pink nebula formation in sagittarius. 😊
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Photograph of a stack of 13 predominantly pink and black straight walled, wheel thrown cups, sitting on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. They are all subtly different, as they are all hand thrown and hand painted, but all have a thumb dimple. The inside is mostly black, but with blue, purple and turquoise swirls of glaze.

Was up photographing my girlfriends kids today. Sa

Was up photographing my girlfriends kids today. Saw this pristine specimen and had to document its ephemeral beauty. It will be gone in a day or so. So delicate. So fragile. So fleeting. So beautiful. 😍
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Macro photograph of two almond blossom flowers on a branch, with a small bud behind them. The flowers take up almost the full frame of the image.

Time for more glorious glaze 🤤. . Macro Photogr

Time for more glorious glaze 🤤.
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Macro Photograph showing bursting dribbling glaze detail. The base colour is black, with dark blue and turquoise running from the top of frame, almost dendritic tendrils of glaze, with a hint of maroon at the top, and speckled oranges mixing through the blues on the right third of frame.

<< BOTH SOLD >> These two mugs on my website. Cate

<< BOTH SOLD >>
These two mugs on my website. Categorised under nudes. Hence no link from here 🖤
Shop from website link in bio. Hint : Rosa guMug, Rosey-Lou Gum Mug

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Photographs showing the back and front oh two wheel thrown, handled, pink and green mugs, the green bleeding into the pink from the rim of the mug.
The mug on the left has a tapered foot, a circumferential indent just below the midway point, then vertical walls. The mug on the right has a bulging base and tapered walls to the lip.
The second photograph shows the mugs have been illustrated with a figure each, that has been left unglazed, and has turned a buttercream colour. The mug on the left has a figure who is seated facing to the left of the mug. Their curvy legs sprawled out in front of them, the left leg bent slightly more than the right. Their buttocks are visible, and their hair is long, flowing in one smooth s curve over their legs. Their arms are slightly bent, with hands placed softly on the bent knees. The outline of their head is slightly tucked down, and facing out from the mug. There are no facial features illustrated.
The mug on the right is sitting front on, legs crossed, foes pointed, knees around shoulders to reveal a bare mons. The head is withdrawn deeply in, and only shoulder tips visible. There are six drawn in black, coloured in pink dots, one on the head, one on each kneecap, one on each ischia tuberosity (bum bone) and one on the right ankle as it is the most outward limb. There aredotted lines as if a zodiac is being formed from this pose. Their right leg points form an upturned 'v' and the head, left knee and left ischia tuberosity form a right facing v arrow.

☺️ ☺️ . Photograph of a shiny gold bronze

☺️ ☺️
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Photograph of a shiny gold bronze coloured sculpture. From just above the shoulders to just below the gluteal cleft. The first photograph is from begind and second from the front. The sculpture has very thick thighs, a meaty mons and belly and small but round breasts.

This cheeky lass in my store. 🤫 You'll need to

This cheeky lass in my store. 🤫 You'll need to go there to see what she's getting up to 🤭
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Photograph shows a handmade ceramic tumble on a white background.
The cup is made from buttercream coloured clay, has feint horizontal impressions on it from the wheel throwing process, has a foundation of black glaze on which purple, pale pink, maroon, blue and turquoise glaze have been splashed. There are three dendritic dribbles of turquoise glaze centred in the shot.
#hintshesdoingpelviwandstretches😂😂😂 #pelvicphysiotherapy

Sunset colours 🥰☺️👌 Gonna attempt to get

Sunset colours 🥰☺️👌
Gonna attempt to get some of these later this year. 🌆
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Photograph of silhouette of three birds sitting on power lines during. Purple pink and peach sunset. There is a "stobey pole")(concrete and steel reinforced power pole) on the left edge of the image with a small border of the sunset to the very left of shot, and a lower border of tree tops and blurry suburban street lights.
The sunset colours from top to bottom fade into each other as follows : lilac in top left and Heather in top right, down to vintage rose, pastel purple, pastel peach, neon pink/orange, a horizontal whisp of dark royal purple clouds, fleuro pink, vintage rose, pastel mauve, then a light grapery/periwinkle purple along the black silhouette of the tree line.

Oh yeah... Made these little sweeties last year. O

Oh yeah... Made these little sweeties last year. On my website now.
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Photograph of a pair of diamond shaped silver ear studs. They are propped up on a very dark, barely identifiable background of a dish with coffee beans in for scale. The diamond shaped earrings are made from flat silver, and have been textured with small spherical divets, more concentrated at the apex and tapering to shiny flat silver at the bottom point.

Itty bitty bottom of a potsie. . Photograph shows

Itty bitty bottom of a potsie.
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Photograph shows abstract amorphous swirling blobs of mostly pastel coloured glaze. The top left is the darkest area, black and navy glaze bursting with turquoise rivulets as we move through the 'canvas' in a clockwise fashion. The top right corner is pastel blues and pale peaches and pinks, moving down into peaches and yellows at the bottom centre. The bottom left is peach, pale blue and moving into mauve with dark navy specks throughout. Moving into the centre of the shot is olive green over turquoise, that then bursts into a central turquoise and pale blue branching running kidney shaped section, which is mostly surrounded by a mustard yellow lichenesque glaze.

Little choccy swirl shotty I shared yesterday. Now

Little choccy swirl shotty I shared yesterday. Now in my shop.
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Photograph shows a wheel thrown ceramic cup sitting on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. It is made from swirls of white and dark chocolate coloured clay, and has very straight walls, aside from at the foot of the cup, which has been beveled, and the lip has been slightly turned out. The cup has been left raw over most of the outside to highlight the dark chocolate brown and cool white salt and pepper speckled clay that has an almost animal print swirled pattern.

Probably my favourite detail this load. 🥰 Simpl

Probably my favourite detail this load. 🥰 Simple things🤷‍♀️
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Photograph showing torn clay detail on a carved faceted surface. It's not obvious that it is a bowl, just a 3d surface with blue and purple out of focus behind it. The clay is cool white grey with tiny white and black speckles. The top of the surface is glazes in black.

This beautiful drop is off to its new home in the

This beautiful drop is off to its new home in the morning. Luke came in to tell me it sold as I was taking this photograph.
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Photograph is a close up detail shot of a drip detail on the glaze of a faceted clay surface. The glaze is a transparent olive seaweed green at the top of the image with a few rivulets of turquoise and navy blue. Through the olive green, speckles of dark green almost black run for a short whispy distance down the surface of the glaze.
The turquoise and Royal blue culminate in a bulging marbled line of opaque swirls and spots, with dark veins of blue and speckles of mustard yellow almost gold. The clay surface is then left exposed, a cool sandy grey white with salt and pepper specks throughout. It is these black specks that contribute to the whispy green black specks in the glaze above. The glazes surface highlights the faceted nature of the clay due to it crawling from the sharp edges and pooling on the flatter faceted surfaces. There is an out of focus white strip of background on the right ¼ of the image helping demonstrate the 3 dimensionality of this object and its gorgeous glaze drip.

Last one for a bit. Same glazes, different clay, d

Last one for a bit. Same glazes, different clay, different incline. I love ceramic surprises.
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Photograph shows a detail shot of a dripping, swirling, melting, melding of coloured glazes. The background colour is black, over which royal blue, purple, mauve, red, turquoise, olive green, pale blue and peach drip, and centered in the frame is a small dendritic smattering of mustard yellow, almost gold spattered as if lichen on a tree branch.

100ml volume, swirly cup. Might fit a silicone lid

100ml volume, swirly cup. Might fit a silicone lid.. Not sure if they make them this small? 🤔 It fits a plastic lid from @b3coffeeau takeaway.. But leaks because.. Plastic and clay are not a watertight fit. 🤷‍♀️
Will post this to my website tomorrow.
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Photograph shows a wheel thrown ceramic cup laying on its side on an old paint splattered wooden workbench, revealing it's rose pink, concentric circle carved base. The cup has been left raw over most of the outside to highlight the dark chocolate brown and cool white salt and pepper speckled clay that has an almost animal print swirled pattern. The foot of the cup has been bevelled, then imprinted with the artist's stamp (rounded rectangle with two large triangles and one small triangle with three dots under the smaller triangle) and location+year stamp (SA 2020) visible due to the sidelighting creating depth and shadows.

So chocolate and shiny. . Photograph of a dark cho

So chocolate and shiny.
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Photograph of a dark chocolate coloured hand made, multifaceted clay tumbler. A 1cm rim of black glaze has been painted around the rim of the tumbler. Down the bottom of the mug can be seen the canvas texture the cup was rolled out of, imprinted by the artists stamp. The base of the mug is just barely able to be made out from this angle and shows an off center depressed dimple, and a circular stamp which is on too steep an angle to be read. #keanesblackmidfire

Edit: biggie on the left of shot is <<sold>> . . T

Edit: biggie on the left of shot is <<sold>> .
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These little loves on my website now.
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Photograph showing two handmade, geometric faceted cups. Photograph is taken front on to the mugs to show the dribbles of blue, green, turquoise and aqua glaze. The left cup is larger than the right. Both have one larger, deeper facet carved concave into the wall fit for a thumb.
The top roughly 2cm of the mug has been glazed, and the bottom ⅔ has been left raw to retain the angularity of the carved facets, and show off the salt and pepper speckles within the clay body. The raw clay feels smooth like worn river stones, abs the glaze highly glossy. The drips are divine half teardrops that are particularly tactile 😍🤤

Hnnngggggg. . OK. I'm a convert. I officially love

Hnnngggggg.
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OK. I'm a convert. I officially love coloured glazes. (used to think I preferred illustrating clay)
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Photograph showing close up glaze detail. The top ⅓ish band is a cloudy mottled black grey, spikily invading into the glaze below which has a base background of black, overlaid in running liquid/explosive firework/waterfall movement in the glaze of vibrant, navy and pale blue. Towards the bottom ⅓ speckles of mauve begin to appear, more concentrated in the left corner, which is slightly in shadow.

So... These chonkibois are on my website, but for

So... These chonkibois are on my website, but for some reason not showing up in my products 🤷‍♀️
I don't wanna part with them, they're so spectacular, but my cupboards are overflowing already... And I told mysf when making them they weren't for me. 🤭😊
So.. Whoever I made them for... You can get them now. If you want the pair, I'll refund you shipping on one... Haven't chatted with hubby yet about how to change that on my website... He's been doing 12 hr days for months and I'd rather snuggle than do more website stuff rn 😉🥰
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Series of five photographs showing two handmade mugs stacked on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. 1- photographed from 20 degrees above, the upper two fifths of the mug are glazed an a super dark translucent navy blue, and the raw stone coloured clays carved facets can barely be seen through the glaze, but are very apparent on the lower three fifths of the mug where the clay has been left raw.
2&4-the same two mugs photographed from a higher angle so as to see down into the mug, showing all the swirly glaze colours of blue, green, turquoise, purple, peach and pale blue.
3- a close up detail shot of the cascading swirling clay. The background is dark charcoal, with turquoise, pale blue and olive green cascading down the centre, and speckled maroon purples sliding down the outer leaft and right thirds of the image.
5- both mugs on their sides, the one on the left of frame is mostly cropped out. The primary mug in frame shows off its three carved feet that have been imprinted with a small heart. The artist stamp is also visible near the foot of the mug under the handle.

Bum of a bowl 🤭😍💖 . Photograph showing a

Bum of a bowl 🤭😍💖
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Photograph showing a faceted clay surface taking up the full frame. The clay is cool white with white and black speckles. The side lighting suggests the surface is domed toward the camera lens. Toward the middle, but of entered slightly to bottom left, is a loose 'D' shaped carving into the surface. There is an artists stamp (two large triangles then a smaller one underscored by three dots, the stamps edges forming a rounded rectangle) and circular year and location stamp reading "2020 SA"

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Diamond nebula ritual bowl.
💎🌌💖🥣
Similar to the round one in size, but with a charcoal base colour and a rounded diamondesqe shape.
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3 photographs showing a hand made bowl with a multicoloured glaze inner surface.
1-bowl is sitting on a cane chair tilted so the entire inner surface is facing the camera to show the amorphous swirling of blues, turquoise, purple, maroon, olive green and yellow run and pool alongside each other down the walls of the bowl to the bottom, which appears quite flat given the reflections due the to shiny glaze.
2- bowl sitting on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. From this angle more of the turquoise, olive greens and dark blues can be seen, with a vein of maroon red trickling down the inner wall of the on the left most side.
3- bowl is now shown on a white background, front on, with a tealight candle l in the right of frame for scale. The image is cropped to excluded roughly 2/3 of the blue wax tealight. More of the olive green and turquoise are shown on this angle of the bowl.

Glaaaaayyyyyzzzz . Photograph of an detail shot of

Glaaaaayyyyyzzzz
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Photograph of an detail shot of pooling dripping glaze. The entire frame is filled by the glaze, almost as if an abstract painting. On the left half of fram are blues, maroons and purples, and splitting the frame roughly in half is an oozing dribbling line of yellow with swirled colours of swirling turquoise and grey, and speckles of the purple and blue from left of frame.

Five beads and a bell. 😊 Dark chocolate brown c

Five beads and a bell. 😊 Dark chocolate brown clay left raw is currently right up there for me.
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Photograph showing a roughly hewn pinch pot bell strung on sand coloured faux suede cord, knotted between each bead. The top bead is faceted, the second a flattened oval, the third a roughly round bead with a wrinkle left in the clay from its wet phase. Fourth before the bell head is another larger flattened oval. In its top surface is an imprinted canvas pattern. The bell is softly out of focus but show the dimples from the rythmich pinching and turning movements used to create the flattened, conical shape bell. The final bead is a a flat circle, which has been knotted to suspend it vertically within the mouth of the bell. In the background of the image are our of focus bells and beads in chocolate, stone and red, creating a tonally complimentary backdrop for this organic bell.

Set of four soup bowls. Egg shaped for the perfect

Set of four soup bowls. Egg shaped for the perfect final slurp! 😂 #ihavenomanners #lovemybroth
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Photograph shows four handmade pinch pot bowls on an old paint splattered wooden bench. Two are stacked and one sits solo behind the fourth which lies on its side to show off its interior. The sides of the bowls have been left unglazed to preserve the smooth river stone effect of carved raw clay, and there are areas where the carved clay has been torn away to reveal a rough textural surface, reminding us of the once malleable surface of the clay.
The inside glaze is a mixture of turquoise, blue, green, purple and pastels of these colours, dripping down the internal walls, and swirling to pool in the bottom of the bowl.

This beautiful and sweet little self care ritual b

This beautiful and sweet little self care ritual bowl turned out precisely how I hoped it would! A swirling nebula galaxy 🌌 of colours lining the inside of a geometric faceted bowl, that sits snugly in one or both hands.
Finally got this insta shopping happening, so she's available on my website now. 😊
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Four photographs showing a handmade ceramic pinch pot bowl.
1- view of the bowl from top down, the bowl is sitting tilted forward on an old paint splattered wooden work bench. There is a dribbling swirling pattern of glaze, with a dark blue rim, falling into a mixture of white, pale blue, purple, turquoise and olive greens.
2- closer photograph of the glaze colours, with shiny reflections indicating the hand made methodically pinched out surface of the bowls curves.
3- photograph shows a direct side on of the bowl. The lighting is from 45degrees to the side, showing off the 3 dimensionality of the bowls outer surface that has been carved away to form geometric facets. Artists stamp is also shown on the outside surface , just above the bottom/ foot of the bowl.
4- photograph of the base of the bowl. It has been upturned on the old wooden work bench. There is a depression carved into the base of the bowl. All of the faceting work on the outside of the bowl is more visible here due to the side lighting making each facet a slightly different shade of cool white, pepper and salt speckled clay.

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