Cosmic Esoteric
‘The Roundels’
Clay, 2023
The Roundels: They are from my mind, I had an entirely imagined world of stream powered boats in sheltered bodies of water surrounded by mountains. The steam boats refer back to another era too. A sort of 20th century (and prior) optimism, maybe. The landscape is sublime, from memory, but might not even exist. The landscape is surrounded by a traditional folk decoration of roses and stripes, common on travelling-boat functional wares. This type of decorated object was once used by people who hauled stock around by boat, as part of a protective covering to prevent corrosion. Now this type of painting is often done on items which are stock to be sold in a kind of gift shop memory of earlier days.
‘The Jug’
Clay, 2023
The Jug: This is a milk jug. The clay reminds me of the mid 20th century stoneware which my granny had a set of when I was a young child. When the kitchen got redone by my parents it got thrown out, unfortunately. It was lovely, but at the time, around the year 2000, people didn’t like that style, and I think the pressure from younger family members made the set go in the bin. The imagery on the jug is very old fashioned. The cottages have chimneys which isn’t what we’re supposed to do now. There is a death of that. They are obviously from another era.