Delicately carved ceramic wall art decorated with coloured clay slips and sgraffito drawings of an eyelash Pit viper in a fig tree.

Inspiration for this piece was taken from the amazing eyelash pit viper which is native to central and south America. I placed him in the branches of a fig tree.
Every unique design created starts life as a detailed line drawing and once I’m happy this is transferred on paper by hand onto the clay surface. Each piece has been thrown on the wheel, left to slightly dry and then goes through many different processes and techniques developed over my years as a ceramic artist to create my intricate images onto the damp clay surface.
My decoration is a combination of painting with clay slips, carving and using sgraffito to draw the delicate lines onto each design. This takes many hours of work and no two pieces will ever look the same.
Once completed these are left to dry for a few weeks and fired twice in an electric kiln during which I have selectively glazed the main themes leaving the rest of the decoration matt.
All of my wall art pieces have a unique hanging system which has been made from high quality MDF and attached using a clear araldite and has a D ring and 4 rubber feet for hanging on your wall.