jugs
handbuilding techniques borrowed from; watching YouTube clips of Maria Martinez, Tibetan black pottery potters, Chinese Yixing clay teapot (purple sand teapot) makers.
Mugs
flatback
Verbeia is a Romano-british deity, thought to be the deification of the river Wharfe, in Wharfedale, Yorkshire. I have chosen to use her as a motif throughout this term because I find her form interesting, the wielding of snakes by goddesses at the time she was carved and indeed much prior was popular in Canaanite, Iranian, Cretan, Maya, Scandanavian, Yoruba and West African art. The carving is representative of a long history of female deities like this.
Some historians believe Verbeia is a celtic-roman-gaulish realisation of the Gaulish goddess or princess; The Mavilly Goddess, who holds in one hand two snakes and wears a flowing pleated tunic. It is believed by some that the romans recruited from the Lingones tribe in present day Dijon in France, those that believe this also believe that those same troops had something to do with the depiction of Verbeia.
Its important to remember that the ‘Romans’ were not all true Italians, like the British in the first and second world wars the romans scouted and enslaved people from the middle east, Africa and the rest of modern day Europe or Gaul.
plate
lidded jar
Glaze experimentation and development
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