Capturing the Light in 3D...

It's been a busy time in the studio as I have been creating a new body of work for an exhibition and two exciting commissions (more on those in a future post).
Organised by the Northern Potters Association the exhibition will be at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Newcastle on the theme of 'LIGHT'.
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My practice focuses on light and shadow and the starting point for this series was my Grandfather Silvester's beautiful hand carved oak mantle shelf which sits above the fireplace in our dining room.

​As a child I would use my finger to trace the letters, and the words 'POST TENEBRAS LUX’ and their meaning 'Light After Darkness’ fascinated me. Over the last two years, our world's extraordinary shared experience means they have taken on even greater significance.
It feels like we have begun to emerge back into daylight having been creatures thrown into darkness.

This series of porcelain sculptures captures the changing hues of light through different time frames. In essence - painting light in 3D, with porcelain.
​As always, colour is worked into the porcelain body and the surface and edge ripples come from pressing the porcelain onto moulds of folded origami.
The porcelain is unglazed and fired right through to 1248ºC.

Peaceful and contemplative works-
∙ Day Break - the dawn light breaks
∙ Day's End - golden hour leads into sunset
∙ Midnight​ - the moon's light breaks through the clouds
∙ From Dawn to Dusk - 24 hours, because you can't have dawn and dusk without the night
∙ Dappled Light 
∙ Eclipse  
∙ Light Shards - fine porcelain tiles, hints of 24 carat gold, encased in resin and mounted on a heavy wooden block
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Here you can see how the porcelain and its shadows change depending on the lighting - 'Day Break', 'Day's End' and 'Midnight' in daylight and night-time overhead light. The standing sphere in the second image is a front-on view of 'Eclipse'.

'From Dawn to Dusk', 'Light Shards' and 'Dappled Light'

'LIGHT" at St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle runs 28th May - 27th June.