Carved Bowls
These bowls, like almost all of my work, are made from found wood. When finished, the textured and smooth surfaces are wonderful to touch and the bowls themselves become robust containers for the stories which they acquire; from initially finding the wood to the places which the pieces travel to after being finished. Whilst beginning to make these in 2004, I was studying the work of the artist Richard Long, who can condense the tale of a walk of a thousand miles into a picture of a spiral which traces the path. Short pieces of text are carved onto each bowl, telling a little about where the wood came from, so hopefully beginning the process of holding tales which these bowls were made for.
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Tacheles Squat, Berlin
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Fernworthy Forest, Dartmoor |
University of Plymouth campus,
Exeter |
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This cherry wood bowl was made for the fifth wedding anniversary of two friends in 2009. The blackened outside was made, like the bowl above, by scorching the bowl with a blowtorch. In Britain, wooden gifts are traditionally given to celebrate the fifth anniversary. The quote carved onto the bowl is from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell-
'What is now proved was once only imagined'
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