Hand made in terracotta using press moulds and extruded clay. Manipulated by hand and attached to the vessel body. Hinterwater VI is glazed in a hand made glaze with an addition of cobalt to create a matt, dry, midnight blue finish. The matt finish is preferable to absorb the light and let the piece create its own colour and sculptural shadow. The piece is approximately 40cms in height and about 30cms diameter at the widest part.

The Hinterwater Project, is inspired by a waterside setting, the Aire and Calder Navigation canal. A particular inspiration for her new collection is the recent emergence of new wild flower and grass habitats along the old post industrial canal and river route as nature reclaims what was lost during industrialisation. Based in Yorkshire, Adele finds this particularly poignant and inspiring. ‘The melancholy feel of the canal’s faded industrial history around East Yorkshire,’ she says with feeling, ‘is now being brightened by an explosion of natural wildlife. My new work aims to capture both the industrial past and allude to the contemporary globalisation which has led to its next environmental phase’.
The irony is not lost on her that the pottery carried on this very waterway in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries canals displayed idealised Neo-Classical landscapes of the sort that never existed and were vastly removed from the industrial pollution that set in train a process that today has turned full circle. ‘My collection celebrates today’s wild and living landscape and heightens awareness of the importance of necessary pollinators, and the dangers of global pollution and environmental change.