Mayflies - Ceramic Dish by Pauline Lee (SALE 20% off)

SALE 20% off Was £40 now £32

 Measuring approx 23cm x 23cm this ceramic dish by Pauline Lee in pale violets and greens depicting mayflies and blossom.

Signed on base.

Pauline’s studio is set in a peaceful, tranquil woodland garden in a secluded part of Dartmoor. The sound of a running stream encompasses the nearby landscape. Inspired by her surroundings she makes Stoneware clay sculptural forms. Her torso sculptures are made from textured stoneware ‘paperclay’ with applications of oxides and stains.
With the addition of finely ground paper to clay, it is now possible to hand build forms of any size, attaching clay at any time without the need to keep the whole form moist. Bone dry clay can be fixed to wet clay and fired without cracking, hard surfaces can be plastered and modelled on with wet clay, prefired ceramic objects can be inserted and the whole fired with no ill effect.
This unique product is known as paper clay and this ability to stick to itself and other objects without cracking is due to the cellulose fibres that make up paper. When broken down finely enough paper reverts to a mass of cellulose fibres that look and behave like minute straws, sucking up the even smaller particles of clay slip thus forming a matrix of interlocking clay-filled tubes with far greater strength than clay alone.

Pauline uses natural materials such as leaves, flowers, stones and twigs to create texture in her work.

Her latest group exhibition is called ‘Ceramics at the Castle’ in Exeter.