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ceramic funeral urns
My ceramic work is figurative and mostly stoneware. The work is on a domestic scale ranging between 30 to 150 cm in height.Although my natural impulse is to make sculpture, I am very interested in making functional pieces, and with this in mind I have been developing a series of simplified sitting figures to be used as funeral urns. As this work will be fired to 1250c it will be frost proof, and thus can be placed outside in a garden setting. Ashes or memorabilia can be placed inside the urn through an opening, before the ceramic is fixed to a stone base.The look of my work is influenced by an interest in ancient history - Celtic, Etruscan, Cycladic and Middle Eastern.Coiling is the construction process most employed, although I am currently developing a press moulded process in order to reproduce one of the urn designs. Slips,engobes and lava glazes are used to add surface texture.May 2011
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Alan Braidford
Sculptural Ceramics and Ceramic Urns
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