Blue & White
I have spent a long time investigating historic Chinese cobalt underglaze painting, made famous in blue and white export porcelain. Through abstract brush strokes and expressive mark-making, I have reinterpreted this vivid blue to cultivate my ‘New Ming.’
Mountain Landscape
2020. Blue & White thrown and glazed porcelain painted with cobalt oxide. 65 x192 cms
Blue and White Monumental Vases
2011. Porcelain, Glazed, Kang Qian Cobalt oxide. 191 x 71 cms
Blue and White monumental Vase, 2011. Porcelain, Glazed, Kang Qian Cobalt oxide 191 x 71 cms
Blue and White monumental Vase, 2011. Glazed porcelain painted in cobalt blue 191 x 71 cms
Detail: Artist with Blue and White Monumental Vase, 2011
Detail of Blue and White Monumental Vase, 2011
Detail of Blue and White Monumental Vase, 2011
Detail of Blue and White Monumental Vase, 2011
Five Storey’s: Chinese Ladders 2 & 3
2009. Glazed Porcelain, ‘New Ming’ Blue Cobalt and Iron Oxides. 280 x 46 x 46 cms
Five Storey’s: Chinese Ladders - 3, 2009. Glazed Porcelain, Cobalt Oxide. 269 x 50 x 50 cms
Five Storey’s: Chinese Ladders - 2, 2009. Glazed Porcelain, ‘New Ming’ Blue Cobalt and Iron Oxides. 280 x 46 x 46 cms
Monumental Vases
2006-2007
Abundance and Prosperity, 2007. Glazed Porcelain, ‘New Ming’ Blue Cobalt and Iron Oxides. 280 x 70 x70 cms
Bo Yang lake, 2006. Porcelain, underglaze blue transfers from artist's drawings, selected areas of glaze. 225 x 57 x 57 cms
Chasing Red, 2006. Glazed Porcelain, cobalt and iron oxide, onglaze enamel. 193 x 67 x 67 cms
Six Brushes, 2007. Porcelain, painted glaze, cobalt and iron oxide. 225 x 57 x 57 cms
Chinese Ladders, 2007. Glazed Porcelain, ‘Modern blue’ cobalt oxide. Ht 300 cms
Flower Pictures, 2007. Porcelain, underglaze blue transfers from artist's drawings, selected areas of glaze. 201 x 81 x 81 cms
Lotus Flowers, 2006. Carved Porcelain, underglaze transfers. 225 x 56 x 56 cms