Wanting to further develop my characters and somehow incorporate a story became my next focus. I still wanted to make stand alone pieces but with a depth that I wasn’t able to achieve using the bold colours and doll like faces. I changed clay again after more research – there are more products on the market now than had been a few years ago. I settled this time on a Japanese clay. It is light, white, has virtually no shrinkage and sand to a porcelain finish.
I looked inwards this time to my own quirks and vulnerabilities to create a collection of 15 figures called ‘Being Me’.
The final pieces have a plaque attached to their wooden bases made from baked sculpey with the title of the piece. The pictures that follow were taken before the plaques were attached so that I could run a small print series from the photographs.
Ginger & Sparky 