New forms

New form with wings, new form like seashell, feeling very creative in Spring!

Nerikomi pattern number 80

Every year I make a few new nerikomi patterns, always different never repeated, this is the 80th pattern!

Part of the joy of using nerikomi technique is to create these mind boggling patterns.

Nerikomi pattern blocks have been rested for 3 months, it is time to start using them.

New patterns new form, to hand build and see my paper pattern design works out well, in porcelain, is most satisfying.

Now, have to wait and see how this form shrinks/warps/cracks during drying and firing stages.

Ceramic Review Mar/Apr 2024 issue 326

Very pleased to be invited to write for Potter's Secrets in Ceremic Review 326. The third time I contributed to this magazine.

Nerikomi - The Art of Coloured CLay by Thomas Hoadley

Just launched in the USA, a book about the history and application of nerikomi technique in ceramics. I am honoured to be 1 of 26 artists, worldwide, included in the book.

From the auther of the book, Thomas Hoadley: Your work is unique in the world of Nerikomi.

Available from Bloomsbury, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

Nerikomi ‘rainforest’

My early years of nerikomi patterns are all geometric repetitive forms, somehow, I felt that it is the best expression of the technique.

nerikomi 'Rainforest'

Then I played with making free hand curve pattern, starting with slices of black and white lines, formed into leaf shape, overlapping to form a block of pattern, named it nerikomi ‘Rainforest’.

I enjoyed the process very much, and like the organic curve look. Since then, every year, I make a couple each of geometric and free hand patterns.

Evolution of form 2/2

This is a form I thought of years ago in order to hand build a slightly bigger porcelain nerikomi vessel, that still uses very thin sheets of porcelain.

I like the method and have since modified it to create different shapes and ever bigger size works.

Evolution of form 1/2

This is a form I thought of years ago in order to hand build a slightly bigger porcelain nerikomi vessel, that still uses very thin sheets of porcelain.

I like the method and have since modified it to create different shapes and ever bigger size works.

Nerikomi ‘Cubic’

This tri-colours 3D effect is often used on fabric and card. It took me 3 years to figure out a way to make it into my nerikomi pattern 'Cubic' !

I love the visual effect.

After making over 70 nerikomi patterns, I still enjoy the challenge of working out how to build the pattern I have in mind.

Evolution of works

Fun to put my first collection of nerikomi works next to this season’s vessels. At that time, I won’t believe I could make tall/large work using my pure porcelain nerikomi method, very pleased to see the challenge tackled.