Echinacea Range

After spending a day working in the walled garden of Sledmere House near to Driffield, sketching some very vigorous echinacea plants, I decided to try to capture their forms in porcelain.

Vases and bowls are thrown on the wheel then pinched around the rim whilst still soft to create a deckle edge. The exuberant seed heads are carved and textured with layers of glaze and copper oxide aided by the use of wax resist - whilst on the internal surfaces a copper rich glaze is encouraged to flux and bleed softly.

thrown porcelain bowl with pinched rim and echinacea design