Bottle vase with limpet decoration. This Vase is a practice piece to inform part of a range I am producing for the @theleachpottery The work being made explores materials I have gathered during trips to St Ives and the surrounding area. The glaze on this pot has been made with clay I dug from the cliffs at Godrevy head and silt from the red river mouth there. The form of the pot is based on a discarded Buoy I found and the limpet shells that I used to make moulds for the decoration were gathered by my son Wilf along the shore line at Hayle. The clay body is from Dobles clay pits just a little further up the coast at St Agnes I have been working on this glaze for the last couple of months and it’s finally starting to come good. It’s a clay heavy ash glaze as I wanted the clay and the silt to be the focus and the ash to take a back seat. The glaze has lovely milky flecks and sections close to a creamy Nuka as it gets thinner but the ash retains the fluidity and pooling. The glaze breaks to a golden brown toast on the proud details which is contrasted well by the milky tones surrounding them. The glaze has movement and swathes of deep transparent greens throughout. #ashglaze #buoy #leach #leachpottery #leachpotterystives #stives #cornwall #pottery #vase #limpet #green #glaze #pottersofinstagram #craft #art #artistsoninstagram #bottle #bottlevase #wildclay #clay #digyourown #handmade #natureinspired #photography #drip (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGH_S80j1f7/?igshid=51y5xh4ghxbi
