Wild find jugs
These jugs are all one off pieces.
Please get in touch to see what is available if not listed.
These are sculptural and useful jugs. The making of them is slow and mindful, drying slowly and altering over time but I try not to lose the essence of their character. They usually get a name by the time I have them finished. If you should buy one I will let you know it if you’re interested.
I generally use either a stoneware black clay or stoneware red terracotta but there is the occasional lighter clay too. The colours are like the peat soil up on Dartmoor and the red much like the fields and coastal cliffs in areas here in Devon. The shapes seem to come to me as I make them and the glazes applied to enhance the features that I like within the form.
If your chosen vessel has a wooden handle this will have been found on one of my many walks around Devon. Maybe a piece I have carried across the moors, may be piece that has clambered the coast on my back. I often come home with a few lovely treasures from my rambles.
When the jug is fired and I am going to add a handle it takes a while to consider which piece of wood suits it best, I then carefully line up and carve the wood to fit the lugs I have created on the jug. They are bound with copper wire with the intention that this wire colours and softens in its appearance over time.
If you prefer a ceramic handle this too is carefully considered for its visual flow with the vessel as well as its feel in the hand. The jug needs to have balance if its full of liquid. These often have the appearance of old thick leather somehow.
Jugs without handles / carafes are an easy addition to the table and well balance for flower arrangements too.
These jugs are all one off pieces.
Please get in touch to see what is available if not listed.
These are sculptural and useful jugs. The making of them is slow and mindful, drying slowly and altering over time but I try not to lose the essence of their character. They usually get a name by the time I have them finished. If you should buy one I will let you know it if you’re interested.
I generally use either a stoneware black clay or stoneware red terracotta but there is the occasional lighter clay too. The colours are like the peat soil up on Dartmoor and the red much like the fields and coastal cliffs in areas here in Devon. The shapes seem to come to me as I make them and the glazes applied to enhance the features that I like within the form.
If your chosen vessel has a wooden handle this will have been found on one of my many walks around Devon. Maybe a piece I have carried across the moors, may be piece that has clambered the coast on my back. I often come home with a few lovely treasures from my rambles.
When the jug is fired and I am going to add a handle it takes a while to consider which piece of wood suits it best, I then carefully line up and carve the wood to fit the lugs I have created on the jug. They are bound with copper wire with the intention that this wire colours and softens in its appearance over time.
If you prefer a ceramic handle this too is carefully considered for its visual flow with the vessel as well as its feel in the hand. The jug needs to have balance if its full of liquid. These often have the appearance of old thick leather somehow.
Jugs without handles / carafes are an easy addition to the table and well balance for flower arrangements too.
These jugs are all one off pieces.
Please get in touch to see what is available if not listed.
These are sculptural and useful jugs. The making of them is slow and mindful, drying slowly and altering over time but I try not to lose the essence of their character. They usually get a name by the time I have them finished. If you should buy one I will let you know it if you’re interested.
I generally use either a stoneware black clay or stoneware red terracotta but there is the occasional lighter clay too. The colours are like the peat soil up on Dartmoor and the red much like the fields and coastal cliffs in areas here in Devon. The shapes seem to come to me as I make them and the glazes applied to enhance the features that I like within the form.
If your chosen vessel has a wooden handle this will have been found on one of my many walks around Devon. Maybe a piece I have carried across the moors, may be piece that has clambered the coast on my back. I often come home with a few lovely treasures from my rambles.
When the jug is fired and I am going to add a handle it takes a while to consider which piece of wood suits it best, I then carefully line up and carve the wood to fit the lugs I have created on the jug. They are bound with copper wire with the intention that this wire colours and softens in its appearance over time.
If you prefer a ceramic handle this too is carefully considered for its visual flow with the vessel as well as its feel in the hand. The jug needs to have balance if its full of liquid. These often have the appearance of old thick leather somehow.
Jugs without handles / carafes are an easy addition to the table and well balance for flower arrangements too.