Members make: Neil’s pot
Every now and again Neil swings by with a whopper. In 2020 he’s been working from home and dropping off pieces and test tiles to fire at the studio. He makes big geometric pots with detailed surfaces. They are handbuilt using strips of clay and shaped using metal kidneys and rasps.
He has used paper resists to cover this pot in type. Paper stencils are used to create sharp and precise decoration. In this piece, a resist technique uses the contrast between a white clay body and black decorative slip to produce a bold graphical design. The surface has depth - removing the paper resists produces a tactile relief surface.
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