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Ceramics by Lisa Stockham
“INSTEAD OF THINKING, ‘THIS IS WHAT I’VE MADE –SOMEONE CAN SHOW IT,’
NOW I REALISE THAT I WANT SOMEONE TO LIVE WITH IT.”
We take a look at Modern Rustics' latest Artisan Feature on our Ceramic Artist, Lisa Stockham.
Lisa’s colours are muted and neutral, but what gives her ceramics their character is the variety of shades, layered and streaked with freehand marks. She’ll often use dark clays as a base – reds, blacks or grogged pinks – scraping it with her hands or scratching lines into the surface in her own equivalent of abstract painting and adding a coat of slip before the first firing to create texture. Then she’ll build up layers of slip or glaze, leaving the ‘brush strokes’ in white or grey, before firing again.
Photography bu Beth Evans
