Sadie Terracotta Head sculpture
I didn’t originally make this but Sadie my daughter brought it home as a leather-hard portrait of her done by another student.
However it was completely solid clay and I had to split it in 2, and hollow it out for firing. i put 2 halves back together again and did have to "tidy it up", I think it sort of looks like her, and am quite attached to it .
However the story doesn’t end there; I still had a large wodge of clay left from the hollowing out, so made the femail figure below.
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Female torso in Terracota
So this is the female form created from the insides of Sadie’s Head.
I created it as one would make a coil pot, building it up from a figure of 8 base layer or 2 at the top of the thigh, then widening it outwards and upwards to full width of hips. Then heavily tapering in and upwards towards the waist.
By this time I was getting concerned that I may run out of my batch of clay, and my basic idea was to use it all up EXACTLY, and not have any left.( I had no reserves). I guess I thought any spare could be used on the neck. Anyway by the time I'd risen above the breasts, I was starting to feel very good about it.
At this time, I was doing a pottery class with a good artist friend, the late "Brian Lamberth" in Hampton, where he had a pottery workshop. Luckily we got on well and he let me do my own thing there , so long as I paid my way. So both the head (above) and this were fired about the same time, under his excellent supervision.
They have sat on my piano ever since, though I had given her to an old neighbour, who looked after her for a few years, but when he moved house, he insisted I take it back, which I happily did.
It is not for sale at the moment, but I may reconsider at a later date.
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