Developing Organic forms that stack and link.

This work is in the very early stages of development, I don’t really know what will happen with it or where I want to take it, I just know I need to make these forms, they are in my head and I need to get them out. 

As I have mentioned before on this blog, I love abstracted organic forms and am a huge fan of Barbara Hepworth,  Jean Arp, Brancusi, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore, Tony Cragg and many others. I am also a great admirer of renaissance figurative sculptures, in particular the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, his ability to capture the flesh, the curves of the body the fluidity of line and form is just spectacular, to sculpt marble that looks so soft and sumptuous is just remarkable and I am inspired by his work. 

These pieces have a long way to go, I need to work out construction processes, experiment with scale, make both solid and hollow forms, sketch out more shapes and explore ideas for developing the work.

Below are some images of the pieces in progress, I used both slabs and coils and pinch pots to construct these, I over scraped the one in the centre top which resulted in an uneven thickness of walls and stress cracks at a vulnerable point in the piece where the extended piece juts out.

The pieces were single fired to 1260 C and I requested that they were kept on a separate shelf from other work as they were to remain unglazed and are a white clay body when fired. Unfortunately for reasons I haven’t been able to understand yet, they have yellow marks on one side, and the overall surface has gone a tinged yellow colour, however it was fired with glazed items so I believe that this may have caused the yellowing to occur. Below are some images of the pieces.