Hunt Museum International Sumission Exhibition

Just delivered to Hunt Museum, Limerick for the International Open Submission exhibition, from 8 December to 28 February.

So happy that this is 1 of 200 pieces of work going to be exhibited, selected from over 1800 applications!

New Nerikomi pattern block

It is time to make new Nerikomi pattern blocks for next year. This pattern needs slicing and laminating, repeatedly 3 times to get the result!

Took me a while to figure out how to do it, and the dimensions of each blocks to eventually make the final block size 16x30cm, 18kg of porcelain, suitable to use to build my work.

It is well wrapped and rest for a few months before use.

500

This is the 500th piece of work sold (at SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin) since I focused on hand building porcelain work using Nerikomi colouring technique !

Other then the first one bought by a friend from home, the other 499 pieces have all been sold through galleries, at exhibitions and Biennials, in Ireland, UK, France, Germany and Singapore.

To know that people who don’t know me at all, see my works and decide to bring them home, always give me a wonderful warm feeling, and is a source of motivation to keep creating! Thank you.

New Delivery

Just delivered a collection of new works to Contemporary Ceramics Center, London. A few snapshots of the display there.

Cracked vessels

As my porcelain Nerikomi work gets bigger and taller, I have more pots that cracked after final firing, at 1200 degrees, result of stress build up in the layering of coloured porcelain technique. At the moment, over half develop cracks!

This year, this Nerikomi pattern has the most cracking problem, out of 5 pieces fired, only this one survived!

Embrace, Nerikomi 'Lightning'

Collection United in Harmony

Uniting two flat rectangular sheets of intricate Nerikomi patterns into a harmonious voluminous form, conjuring an image of lightness and floating about.