Judith Davies
My work takes inspiration from the tideline, responding to the movement of water over sand: ripples, channels and indents and the small objects the sea gives up to land, My eye and hand are always drawn to edges and curves and particularities of detail and texture, work is extremely tactile and each piece is unique,
Ceramics are hand-built from porcelain using pinching and coiling methods. I work slowly; porcelain needs careful treatment, My methods are developed through experimentation, I embed textures into each piece and after firing apply pigments to the surface and then wash back, layering in colour and revealing textures and unique markings. I finish the work with wax and in some pieces inlay wax into holes and crevices.
Drawings are on oriental paper in layered washes of inks made by myself from high quality pigments, occasionally including found materials from specific locations in this way embedding trace into the work.