Works in progress

This image represents some team work between the two potters who make up seatree argyll.

Chris writes poetry – has done since childhood – and Michaela started putting his words into clay some years ago.

Now both of us make pottery, always incorporating Chris’s poetry.

Chris made these mini moon bowls, about 10cm diameter, by forming two domes using slabs of clay inside small bowls. Once they are dry enough to hold their own shape, they are joined using slip and the join softened and cleaned up, and a hole pierced in the top. The clay is smooth raku clay.

They were then wrapped in a (used many times) plastic bag, keeping them soft overnight till Michaela came into the pottery the next morning, ready to add the poetry.

We have worked out that we can fit an average of eight words around the moon bowl centre, depending how many short or long words there are. Michaela looks through our poetry collection to find a line that would work. The letters are then pressed in using letter stamps.

They are now sat in the drying room, and we wait for them to be dry enough to fire in the next firing. Watch this space or our social media to see the finished results.