Rebecca’s contemporary sculptural vases are decorated with layers of textural pattern. They are hand-built from slabs of clay that’s shaped around formers and moulds and gradually refined to create the elegant silhouette that characterises her work. Rebecca's inspiration comes from classical and modern sources, including the shape of Ancient Greek amphorae, William Morris wallpaper and digital imagery. She prints fragments of original designs and traditional motifs onto the ceramic surface by silk-screening underglaze ink onto a gel plate and transferring it onto the vessels in randomised sections. This monotype approach achieves a unique pattern on each piece.

Rebecca works from her home studio in London. Her love of clay began with a life sculpture evening class following which she started studying ceramics at Morley College. After a long career in IT marketing, she now enjoys the creative challenge of making ceramics.

Number 14 in the Pause collection, which invites you to pause and look more closely at its layers of monotype, textural decoration.

This stoneware form is inspired by traditional Korean moon jars and the decoration is randomised fragments of classic motifs, original designs and found objects. It is slab built using formers and moulds and finished on the wheel. The black underglaze pattern is screen printed onto gel plates and transferred onto the surface of the jar to achieve a layered and textured surface. The inside is glazed and the outside is left unglazed and polished to give a pebble-like finish.

 Stoneware

11x11x11cm