Description
Stoneware Wide Waves Bottle
Collect from gallery £53
Including UK delivery £63
H 15cm
Kirsti currently produces hand built vessels and bottles in a variety of stoneware clays. The slab built bottles are created using thinly rolled clay to create finished pieces which are light and elegant. Coiled bottles are spherical in form, but each one is completely different due to the nature of the construction method.
The bottles made are reminiscent of human forms having defined shoulders and narrow necks. The glazes and decorations are then added to evoke landscapes, seascapes and marks found in the landscape. The coiled forms are reminiscent of washed and worn beach pebbles. She uses a dry turquoise glaze as well as impressed marks highlighted with copper carbonate and over glazed with a satin white glaze. Using a variety of clays, the glaze is altered from a vivid turquoise to a washed out blue.
Kirsti obtained a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Crafts at Crewe and Alsager College (Manchester Metropolitan University)
In 1996 she set up her first workshop in Chester, but had also been based in Liverpool and is currently working from a studio at home in Hawarden, Flintshire.
