David Jones
' Cold Waves '
Medium : Vitrified porcelain 1260¼C.
Polished with diamond pads
Size : 12-24cms
Price £130.00 _ £270.00
This body of work is concerned with the creation of a vocabulary, of form and surface, through contrast. The pieces reference bowls, the archetypal form of ceramics. The architecture of the bowl is confronted to generate a grammar of shape. The inside is related and contrasted to the outside profile. Free marking on the interior, gouged with rough tools; a machined finish on the outer skin, all reflecting the range of texture made possible with the rotating potterÕs wheel. Between these two surfaces lies the rim, which is also seriously considered, as the significant interface between the outer and inner realities.
This treatment focuses on the softness, the pliability and the way in which porcelain clay can take up an imprint and be manipulated when plastic. This is in contrast to the stony, glassy hardness resulting from firing. In this way it recapitulates its own geological history Š from mud to rock. The work takes as its influences the impressions and markings of nature: from the erosion of a sea-side rock-pool, revisiting the concentric markings left by the abrasions of the sea, to the systematic dragging of a plough across the countryside.
The work is made in very fine porcelain clay because it is so responsive as a register of these traces.
For further details please contact the artist via email :
Email : davidjonesraku@googlemail.com
Website : www.davidjonesraku.co.uk