Details
Hand-built and turned black stoneware with inlaid white slip; bladderwrack glaze inside; electric fired to ~1240°C
H 8.5 cm x dia 24.5 cm.
Inspired by encounters on coastal walks in Suffolk and Pembrokeshire. Contrasting veins of slip inlaid across a clay body evoke the traced shapes of craggy foreshores and graphic lines of quartz running through collected pebbles.
From the 'Shoreline' series:
"My Shoreline series of hand-thrown stoneware is inspired by encounters on coastal walks in Suffolk and Pembrokeshire. Shaped through processes akin to erosion, each piece emerges through the reductive acts of turning, incising and scouring. Veins of slip inlaid across contrasting bodies draw the eye to the vessel’s surface and the natural beauty of its materials. These visual fissures, diverging and rejoining, move from the scale of gathered beach shingle to evoke traced lines of tide-marks, seafoam and craggy foreshores."
About David Stonehouse
"My work explores abstracted found objects and motifs from places of personal interest and significance, imbuing them with their own distinct character whilst still alluding to their source. Responding to, and developing ideas around, these selected details is what interests me and fuels each body of work. In uniting these site-specific references with meticulously crafted pieces, I seek to create objects that invite quiet attention and encourage sustained engagement. My practice is to work on several collections simultaneously, allowing them to inform one another conceptually, visually, materially and technically. My process is one of deduction and scaling back, letting each element and material speak."
David is a Cambridge-based artist and maker. After gaining a degree in Silversmithing & Jewellery, he was studio assistant to RCA Professor David Watkins, before completed an MA in Product Design at Central Saint Martins. He spent over 25 years in international design before returning to his craft roots to conceive and make refined objects in both ceramic and precious metals.