Old Fashioned Roses
Old-fashioned English shrub roses are amongst my favourite flowers. Their full flat blooms with densely packed petals are intense and beautiful. The Charles de Mills rose has confetti like petals forming into whorls and is perfect for portraying in porcelain. The clay is rolled out thinly, rolled several times more, then modelled into flower heads and leaves. Hundreds of tiny layers can be used to make a single large flower.
White on white always conveys the subtlety of forms, the colour of bare unglazed porcelain is delicate yet alive. To give sparkle and contrasting surfaces I add touches of glossy white glaze on the petals.
graceful wide dish with white textured roses
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