Material Bowls

These three bowls are a series which I had created inspired by Deirdre Burnet and Mary Rogers. I wanted to create a series of textured, tonal and inspired by nature bowls. Rogers and Burnett are similar artists, they both are ceramists and they both use clay. Their work is heavily dependent of shape, texture, tone and pattern. Rogers work is more delicate and refined where as Burnett’s work has a more heavy rustic feeling and atmosphere due to the depth and volume of texture. Both their work is influenced by nature but they are both on the opposite side, Rogers is a more simple and light creation where as Burnett’s has more stronger and deeper textured design.

I used a 100% cotton to make the shapes for the bowls, I used a natural material so the inks, paints and dyes would attract themselves to the material. 

The First bowl was design with Deirdre Burnet work as inspiration. I used a blue / green colour as through out Deirdre Burnet’s work she uses stronger colours. I used a technique called scumbling to soften and pick up the atmosphere of the natural effect and the highlights. I used acrylic paint as I wanted to use a thicker paint to make the bowl more opaque with paint. I sponged the inside of the bowl with a darker coloured paint to create more depth and form in the bowl. I used a lampshade shape bowl as i felt this captured Burnet’s work well. I like the texture created from the paint and the shape of the bowl.

The middle bowl is a more strongly design towards Rogers work as its more delicate and has a more refined texture. Her work often doesn't include much heavy colours just natural tones which is what I created in this bowl. With this bowl i wanted to create a clay like appearance I succeeded in doing. I created a shallow bowl which is creased to capture the clay like appearance that I was trying to create. This bowl was inspired by coral. I used acrylic paint to capture the colour texture of the material.

The third bowl is my own design from both artist, I wanted to capture the delicateness of Rogers work and colour form Burnets work. after creating the owl shape I added dribbled wax down the sides of the bowl to create some wax resist. I then used a sponge to dribble watered down ink down the sides of the bowl. I used different tones to create a more textured appearance. This bowl is inspired by bark, form the use of colour and texture created from dribbling the ink and wax.

I think these three bowls create an interesting series of natural bowls, which have natural tones and textures.