Raku fired Black Sand Pottery vessel, Ceramic Nature Art

Raku fired vessel with west coast black sand glaze and a mossy charred green interior.
10x11x8cm
A unique, decorative object for the home or office (decorative use only, raku is not designed for food or liquids)

Karen Wilde is a mixed-medium sculptor based in Auckland, New Zealand. Wilde’s artworks explore the connections between nature, ecology and human emotion – examining macro surfaces found along New Zealand coastlines and forests while collecting site-specific organic materials for experimental surface treatments. Her Artworks oscillate between simple round vessels and more complex figurative or Animalia forms.

This piece has been fired twice, first bisque fired in and electric kiln and then raku fired in a drum kiln, reduced in organic materials and "kissed by fire" to produce smokey and metallic black colours.