Prodigals return – ceramic artwork

Description

This framed ceramic artwork has one line from Chris’s poetry, highlighted by a textured tree. It was fun to make but with a serious message.

The framed artwork is 19.5cm square with a small brass hanging on the back.

How we make our ceramic artworks

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 it was 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 word and the image to life. Each one is unique and special.

The tile is then fired again, so each tile has gone through a long process of making. We inject everything we make with love!

These pictures 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.

A treasure indeed.