Tatterdamelion

Category: Clay

  • Lavish Monster Butter Dish

    She will guard your butter with her life and look luscious and ornate while she does it.

    This butter dish is made from white earthenware clay, it is food safe and can be put into the dishwasher if you must but if you ask her she will tell you that she would prefer to be lovingly hand washed.

    I used layers of engobes, staines and under glazes all sealed under a layer of thinned clear glaze to achieve the textures and patterns on this piece. There is a lovely crackle effect from the thickness of the engobe (an engobe is a slip made from clay colored with stain).

    The dish holds 1 whole stick of butter is 4.5″tall and 6″ wide.

  • Fabric vase

    Clay? Cloth?…

    This vase is wheel thrown and then hand altered to have textures that may remind you of your favorite sweater. (more…)

  • Bird Girl (a work in process)

    Bird Girl.  She is not enough of either world to fit, so she strives for a balance of pretending  in  both directions, she dons human clothes whilst tying a beak onto her face with a string. (more…)

  • Laundry

    Sculptural metaphor illustrating cycles of  birth and death, decay and renewal.

    This sculpture stands 6″ tall and is about 4 square”s wide.

    “Laundry”, is hand sculpted from low-fire red earthenware, and the surface is painted with colored stains, engobes, (more…)

  • Queen’s Butterdish

    Fancy French Butterdish

    Fancy french butterdish wheel-thrown with white earthenware clay and hand painted with colorful engobes and under-glazes and topped off with a lead-free food-safe clear glaze.

    This dish keeps your butter fresh and soft even on the hottest days, leave her sitting pretty on your countertop  like a fanciful creature from and enchanted garden.

    To purchase this butterdish go to http://www.etsy.com/shop/tatterdamelion