Description
These ‘poetry plaques’ are simple, postcard size ceramic artworks, each with a few lines from Chris’s poetry, highlighted by a sketch and some colour. This one reads, ‘the life singing in you is not just journey, it is here, it is now’, symbolised by a dreamy scene of grasses and sky
The plaques are 12cm x 9cm with a hanging system on the back.
How we make our poetry plaques
The poem, or lines from a poem, are chosen first. Even though it may only be a part of a poem, you can be assured that each plaque is created with feeling. The words are stamped in letter by letter into the clay tile which was cut from a slab of soft stoneware clay and dried a little. The sketch is then etched into the clay – Michaela loves to doodle, and lets her imagination go with what the words have inspired, putting in the lines, textures and some colour, before placing the tile between plasterboard sheets to keep it flat while drying.
Once fired, more colour is added – underglaze is used to pick out the lettering and the lines and textures and then a dash of colour using underglaze or glaze, brings the words and the image to life. Each one is unique and special – not two plaques are the same.
The plaque is then fired again, so each one has gone through a long process of making. We inject everything we make with love!
These poetry pieces make a lovely treat for yourself, or for a gift – to hang in a wee corner, or beside a door, or above a study desk – you choose where the words will keep on bringing delight to its owner.
Treasures to keep forever.
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