Contemporary Figurative Ceramics

This is one of my latest ceramic wall pieces and it illustrates how the printmaking process has influenced how I work in clay. I ’emboss’ the surface with textured stamps and after an initial firing apply an underglaze. This underglaze is then ‘wiped’ from the surface very much like how you would prepare a plate for printing. The underglaze remains in the textured areas and drawn lines to create a high contrast between light and dark.

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