I've been working on a large, tower piece for the Potfest in the Pens group exhibition. This year's theme is light so I'm making a tall tower which will hopefully look impressive when it's lit up with a candle! Here are some photos of the piece in progress:
Paper template of the whole tower:
The template is used to "draw" the design using extruded coils of terracotta with some paper pulp added to it. They are then draped over formers so they firm up to form half cylinders.
They can then be stood upright and joined together with paper slip. Very tricky!
More pieces ar added to the top to help fix the next tower section on top after it has been fired.
The finished bottom tower section with added loops!
I've already finished making the other section of the tower drawings and the top, just need to put them together and somehow get them into the kiln....
Fingers crossed
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