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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

DENIZ-a Turkish name, meaning “sea”. More commonly a male name, but can be for anyone. #sculpture #clay #ceramic #texture #seaurchin #skull #porcelain #paperclay #coralreef #claymask

A coral-like porcelain skull mask. Highly textured and sculptural, the colours are bright and fresh, with turquoise, orange, lime green and white. The skull has white wavy fins radiating across the forehead, with lime green coral honeycomb, orange anemones, electric blue glass-filled craters and a background of turquoise sponge. The mask is displayed at an angle.

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TofuRevolution @tofurevolution.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

make peace with the creature take control of self

A woman with a long veil and an infinity symbol above her head is holding open the mouth of a lion in front of her. She is surrounded by flowers and framed by a simple rectangle.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Sorry, I’ve been on holiday and got out of the routine of posting. Here are the latest pieces out of the kiln! #ceramic #porcelain #clay #sculpture #coral #coralreef #scarab #skull

A chaotic jumble of coral-like ceramic sculptures in a crate, just out of the kiln. The colours are bright, with a lot of orange, green and turquoise, and the white of unglazed porcelain. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including waves, fans, spirals, craters, brain coral, anemones and ridges. There is a predominantly blue, coral skull mask, centrally amongst the pieces. Also, slightly out of place, a small green acorn and two scarab beetles, one a minty green, the other bright orange.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

PEARL-a self-explanatory ocean name. Just a touch of ash glaze on this one. The qualities of the fired, unglazed porcelain are so lovely, almost like alabaster. #sculpture #MarineLife #clay #ceramic #texture #seaurchin #skull #porcelain #coralreef #claymask

A white skull mask, made of porcelain, displayed at an angle.
The skull is covered in coral-like textures, with craters, petals and sponge-like pits. She also has a number of small finger-like protrusions, sticking out randomly, with a small group on the right hand cheekbone. She has some small, feathered, fan-like pieces on the forehead and one on the left cheek. The only colour is in glassy aqua craters, scattered mainly across the cheekbones.
The textures are delicate and lace-like.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

And another. This one is named Laccadive Sea. In my hand this time, to give a better idea of scale. My pieces are small, but highly detailed. #MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture #colourful

A teardrop-shaped porcelain sculpture, held in an outstretched hand. The shape is colourful and highly textured with clusters of large yellow and orange anemone-like craters. The rest of the space is taken up with some large orange rosettes, with turquoise glass centres and smaller fuchsia pink craters, all on a turquoise pitted background.

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Iris Compiet @iriscompiet.art · 24/12/2024

Painted for a wonderful patron who requested a hopeful faery... a faery of light, a faery of warmth, of love, of hope and happiness. A faery who welcomes back the light, pushes back the darkness and sings songs of wishes for the future. Happy holidays, merry Xmas, happy Yule to all.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Another of the 100 teardrop-shaped wall sculptures, all based on different areas of sea. This one is named Sea of Japan. Still some more to glaze. I hope to display them all together at some point. #MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture #colourful

A teardrop-shaped coral-like ceramic sculpture. It has three large, feathered, orange fans with lime green centres and to the top right, jutting out along the side, are five red, forked tongue-shaped branches. The body of the piece, mostly disguised by the sculptural elements, is turquoise sponge with a scattering of aqua glassy craters…these also make their way onto the centres of the fans.
The piece looks like a coral outcrop in vibrant colours.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

One of 100 teardrop-shaped wall sculptures, all based on different areas of sea. This one is named Ningaloo Coast. Still some more to glaze. I hope to display them all together at some point. #MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture #colourful

A teardrop shaped porcelain wall sculpture, encrusted with orange and turquoise brain coral through the main portion. The two sides have a red-orange sponge texture with emerald green craters and there is a row of short spikes along the left-hand side. It’s a riot of colour and texture

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🍃Sage Morgan 🍃 @grumpydwarfpottery.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Hummingbird vase 🤎 If you’re in the area I will be selling wares at Porter Flea in Nashville, TN this Friday and Saturday.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Another batch out of the kiln. I always use commercial underglazes and glazes and I’m happy to let you know the names of them…just ask! #porcelain #ceramic #colorful #colourful #rainbow #joyous #coralreef #coral

A collection of coral-like ceramic sculptures just out of the kiln. The colours are bright, with a lot of orange, green and turquoise, along with some bright white of the unglazed porcelain. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including spikes, petals, waves, fans, branches, craters, brain coral, anemones and ridges.
To the bottom left, there is a predominantly white coral skull mask, with fans and spikes. To the right of it, a spiral shape with short spikes. Above the mask is a small coral comet in green and white.
As the pieces are all stacked together in a box, it’s sometimes hard to see the individual pieces, it reads as a cacophony of forms, textures and colours-quite chaotic!

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We had sun last week! Unglazed porcelain can glow with strong sunlight behind it if it’s thin enough. EUPHEME- a moon of Jupiter Available (amongst others) on my website lisaseaurchin.co.uk from 5pm BST this afternoon. #sculpture #porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture

A small porcelain sculpture, held up to the sun with a blue sky behind it. The sculpture is white, with lots of texture and the porcelain glows where its thinnest, notably through the feather texture on the organically shaped fans, and through some little starburst craters on the main body of the piece. There are also some short spikes, randomly placed, but these are too solid to let the light through.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Again, I need to get myself motivated, so I’ll announce a shop update now, then I’ll have to stick to it! So, new pieces on my website 5pm BST (GMT+1) on Tuesday 24th July. (lisaseaurchin.co.uk or link in bio.) #sculpture #porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture #seaurchin #coral

A coral-like ceramic sculpture with glowing colours. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including vivid yellow spikes and lime green fans with orange and red petals towards the base and more lime green in the centre. The main body of the piece has a white sponge base with peach coloured craters and turquoise starbursts.

The piece is asymmetric with the yellow spikes emerging from between the fans in the centre and towards the bottom left.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

First mushroom out of the mould, I wasn’t sure if I’d have it fired in time for tomorrow’s #gameofshrooms created by @attayumfactory on Insta. Not sure where I’ll hide it yet. South Bristol or North Somerset somewhere! #ceramic #toadstool #mushroom #sculpture #shaggyinkcap #artdrop #arthunt

A ceramic toadstool sculpture, held in an outstretched hand. It’s 3D, but flat on the back, so it can be hung on the wall.
It’s based on a shaggy ink cap, so it’s a tall, quite narrow, mushroom, with a long stalk. It has a shaggy texture in cream and brown and the black gills curl up slightly at the edge.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A crate of newly-fired pieces out of the kiln. I need to take some individual photos. #MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #sculpture #coral #reef #art

A collection of coral-like ceramic sculptures just out of the kiln. The colours are very bright, with a lot of orange, green, red, turquoise and yellow, with many textural and sculptural motifs, including spikes, waves, fans, branches, craters, brain coral, anemones and ridges.
The piece that takes centre-stage is a round sun-like piece, with vivid yellow tentacles radiating from a central area of white sponge and peach-coloured craters.
There are also a few scarab beetle sculptures.

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Pearlyn @pearlynt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Throwing this into the mix for #printpromptmonday theme of #water. Monotype, painting and collage. 11x14” ‘Rainforest Of The Sea’.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Pieces in the kiln, slowly heating up. It usually takes around 24hours to reach temperature and another 24hours to cool down, before I can see the results! They’ll be brighter once fired. There are another two shelves. #MarineLife #coral #sculpture #porcelain #art #reef #ceramic

The octagonal interior of a small, top-loading kiln with a collection of coral-like ceramic sculptures in. Currently the colours are very pastel, with a lot of orange, green, baby blue and yellow, but they’ll be brighter once fired. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including spikes, waves, fans, branches, craters, brain coral, anemones and ridges.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

IRAS- Coral Comet Comets are usually named after whomever discovered them, but this one is named after IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Telescope.) It was discovered in photos taken by the telescope. #sculpture #porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture #SciArt #coralcomet

A coral-like ceramic comet sculpture which is currently unfired clay. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including rosette craters, tiny flowers and even smaller pits. The tail of the comet is made of flame-like or claw-like streamers.

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Simonboses @simon-boses.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I've been working on a series of little dinosaurs. Here's the triceratops. #ceramics #sculpture #miniartmodels #artshare

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Another ring-shaped wall sculpture, named after an impact crater. This one is MIZARAI, named after a buried impact crater in Druskininkai, in Lithuania. It is estimated to be 500 million to 570 million years old and was found during an international seismic survey. #ceramic #porcelain #texture

A doughnut-shaped ceramic sculpture, still in its unfired state. There are a number of petal-like fans, pinched out of the main body, opening up like a chrysanthemum. the doughnut-shaped body of the piece has a sponge pattern and large round divots.
My hand is in the photo, which shows the piece is roughly the size of a dinner plate.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I’ve started another series. I made a ring-shaped former so I thought I’d name these pieces after impact craters. This is AOROUNGA, named after an eroded impact crater in Chad, in the Sahara Desert. It is estimated to be less than 345 million years old. #ceramic #porcelain #texture

A doughnut-shaped ceramic sculpture, still in its unfired state. There are a number of fin-like structures, pinched out of the main body, crossing the piece in one direction (in this image, oriented diagonally.) The high points of the fins are smooth, with the lower areas, the doughnut-shaped piece itself, has patterns of dots in different sizes, some as tiny target motifs, running in lines alongside the fins.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Another public art piece, for an art trail in Løkken, Denmark. I’d love to do the trail in person one day! (Not my photo-taken by Løkken Kunststi) xn--lkkenkunststi-bnb.dk/en/the-17-wo... #arttrail #denmark #sculpture #ceramic

A ceramic sculpture on a granite plinth.

The sculpture depicts a pair of cupped hands, filled with natural textures…a crab, sea anemone, seaweed, limpet and coral. Clover, celandines, a beetle, blackberries and a small tortoiseshell butterfly. Only the butterfly is in full colour, and looks as if it could be a real one, alighting on the sculpture. The rest is the natural grey of the clay with shadows and highlights to bring out the texture.

There are also words stamped into the clay: Opdage, discover, Vokse, grow, Udforske, explore, Beskytte, protect.

The art installation is in the foreground, and behind you can see it’s located on a grassy hill, with terracotta rooftops in the town below. The sky is blue.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

SERAPHIM First time using this former, and it’s not what o expected. I don’t think I’ll add much colour to this, but I won’t leave it completely unglazed. I prefer it horizontally oriented, but I’ll add a number of lugs for other options. #sculpture #porcelain #clay #ceramic #coral #MarineLife

Work in progress.
An unglazed ceramic sculpture with a coral theme, like some fancy sea worm diva. It is highly textured, with many feathered fans, jutting out at different angles. The sausage-like body of the piece, highly disguised by the fans, has some small, Sun-like motifs in clusters, with ripples surrounding them.
It is long narrow and can be hung on the wall.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

PEARL- a self-explanatory ocean name. I’m going to leave her white. #scull #MarineLife #clay #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture

A white skull mask, made of clay, held in an outstretched hand. Although unfired at this stage, the piece will remain white and unglazed, to suit the name Pearl.
The skull is covered in coral-like textures, with craters, petals and sponge-like pits. She also has a number of small finger-like protrusions, sticking out randomly, with a small group on the right hand cheekbone. She has some small, feathered, fan-like pieces on the forehead and one on the left cheek.
The textures are delicate and lace-like.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

PANDORA- a moon of Saturn Named after the first human woman in Greek Mythology, who opened the jar and let evil into the world. #sculpture #porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture #paperclay #coralmoon

A coral-like ceramic sculpture in vibrant reds and oranges.There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including short fingers and waves standing proud of the hemispherical base, which has small, bright blue craters and lime, red and blue anemones.

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Green is a mission @greenisamission.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Repetition With their leaves and needles, the trees act like giant filters. One ha. of beech forest can filter around 70 tons of dust out of the air every year, a ha. of spruce forest as much as 30 tons. Forests and parks as "green lungs" are important💚🌿🌱☘️🌳🌲🍀💚

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A mini coral comet- TABUR These pieces are all named after real comets, which in turn, are usually named after whomever discovered them. #sculpture #porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture #contemporaryclay #comet #coralcomet #SciArt

A mini coral comet sculpture, currently raw, unfired clay. There are short, claw-like flames forming the tail and the body has a cluster of rosette-like craters, with gaps filled with tiny craters. The main surface has a sponge texture.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

THELXINOE - a moon of Jupiter THELXINOE was a daughter of Zeus, one of the Muses in Greek mythology. Her name translates to ‘mind charming’. Another of the smallest size. #sculpture #porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture

A small coral-like ceramic sculpture, held in a hand. The centre is a hemisphere with turquoise glass craters, orange anemones and a pitted turquoise surface. From this base grow very bright red coral branches and pale yellow wiggly spikes.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

EUPHEME- a moon of Jupiter One of the smallest size of coral moons…I have a system and there are only a few of this size left to name. I think I’ll leave this one unglazed. #sculpture #porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture

A small, unglazed porcelain sculpture with lots of delicate texture inspired by coral and other sea creatures. It has four small feathered fans, short spikes and sunburst craters all emerging from a sponge-textured hemispherical base.

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Mesa Schumacher @mesabree.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Throwback, while I make new art in dark times. #ProjectAnimalia (my daily #animalart project) Day 57: Scrambled egg nudibranch (Phyllidia varicosa) One for #InverteFest #sciart #medart #dailyart #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #scicomm #nudibranch #invertebrate

Realistic illustration of a Scrambled egg nudibranch (Phyllidia varicosa), a slug-like creature in dark and light blue and yellow colors.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Trying to get back to regular making…using some of my new formers and stamps that I’ve created during the 100 day project…still more to come! #MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture

A coral-like ceramic sculpture in a curl shape. It is made of porcelain and currently unfired. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including short spikes, sponge, craters, petals and barnacles.

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Annie Stegg Gerard @anniestegg.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"The Miremaiden" 12x16 inches, oils on copper panel will be on display at @coreyhelfordgallery for the "Dreamland Awaits" exhibition curated by @beautifulbizarremagazine Exhibition Dates: April 26 - May 31, 2025 Opening reception: April 26, 7:00 – 11:00pm At: Corey Helford Gallery

oil painting of a girl riding on a giant toad

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It seems quite unbelievable that I’ve been here for half a century, but there we are! More musings about being old in the alt text, after the description.

Additional musings about age after visual description.

Lisa is a white, middle-aged woman with pinkish-blond hair. She doesn’t have much makeup on (mostly to cover the dark circles under her eyes!) and has a few wrinkles. That happens after fifty years, without Botox and filler, so she doesn’t look old, she just looks her age. She has an orange and white stripy jumper on and is standing in the garden with a background of greenery.

Musings: I won’t complain about being old…yes, I have wrinkles, sun damage, grey hairs and I’m squashier than I used to be, *but* I am fitter than I was at the age of twenty. I can no longer dance for three hours straight three nights a week, but I can run a hilly 10k without walking. Not very fast, admittedly, but I don’t be think I could have run 1k when I was 20! I didn’t smoke much, but I don’t smoke at all now, and am rarely around second hand smoke. I drink less alcohol than I used to and probably eat more veg.
The main reason I won’t complain though, is because not everyone has the privilege of living that long. My Dad’s Dad died at the age of 40 from a heart attack after a life lived with type 1 Diabetes and my Mum’s Mum died when she was only 32, from Multiple Sclerosis. So to reach the age of fifty, without any major health issues, is lucky indeed.
Here’s to the next, hopefully healthy, fifty years!

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Pieces in the kiln at the moment :) (And another layer that I forgot to photograph.) #howiamaco #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture #glazefiring #kiln #rohdekiln #MarineLife

A collection of coral-like ceramic sculptures sat on a round kiln shelf inside the kiln, waiting to be fired. Currently the colours are mostly pastel, with a lot of orange, pale blue and yellow, with a few splashes of red and deeper blue, but they’ll be brighter once finished and fired. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including spikes, waves, fans, branches, craters, anemones and ridges. There’s a small acorn, a test piece, in the centre of the shelf, and a few pendants and brooches dotted around to fill the gaps.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Another of the sculptures to be added to my online shop on Saturday 3rd May at 1pm BST (GMT+1) lisaseaurchin.co.uk #ocean #coral #ceramic #colorpop #sculpture #smallbusiness #MarineLife

A large, for me, coral wall sculpture. I’m holding it to show the scale, which is dinner plate sized. It is roughly round, with big orange fans and green coral branches, there are little cups on stalks, filled with pools of melted blue glass, pale yellow craters and lime green ripples.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Anyone with a cat understands! Yes, there are sculptures in there, and no, they don’t seem like they could be comfortable, but she’s been in there a couple of hours already. #blackcat #catinabox #Newton

A small black cat sat in a box full of scrunched brown paper. The box has a hinged lid and is half open, so it makes a little shelter for her. The box is on a wooden bench and bench, box and paper are all pretty much the same colour, surrounding the small cat, staring straight at the camera with her yellow eyes. She looks very comfortable!

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

More pieces to be added to my shop at 1pm BST (GMT+1) on Saturday 3rd of May. lisaseaurchin.co.uk #MarineLife #nudibranch #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture

A collection of five brightly coloured and highly textured ceramic sculptures influenced by nudibranchs. They have been glazed with matt underglazes and shiny glazes, with a lot of orange, green, pink, turquoise and yellow. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including spikes, waves, fans, branches, craters, brain coral, anemones and rosettes.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

If I set a date for my shop update, I’ll have to stick to it! So these pieces, amongst others will be added to my website at 1pm BST (GMT+1) on Saturday 3rd May. lisaseaurchin.co.uk #SciArt #MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture #smallbusiness

$A collection of coral-like ceramic sculptures, three crescent moons and a blue comet. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including spikes, waves, fans, rosettes, craters, and fractal-like edges. The colours are bright reds, oranges, turquoise yellow and lime, with the comet glazed in various shades of blue.$

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days in no particular order. Day 20: 15lb starting weight planter pot #20pots #20days #pottery

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I love that someone called Jennifer bought my piece of the same name-very satisfying :) JENNIFER - a Cornish version of the Welsh Guinevere which can translate to “White Wave.” This series of coral masks have names associated with the sea. #porcelain #skull #mask #coral Just packing her up now.

A small white porcelain skull mask, held on a hand. The skull is covered in coral textures such as brain coral, craters and sponge, with scallop-like fans on the forehead and down the left cheek and spikes, mostly on the right cheekbone.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Glazing, glazing, glazing…or, more accurately at this point, underglazing, underglazing, underglazing! Plenty more layers to add before they can be fired. #MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture

A collection of coral-like ceramic sculptures in the process of being glazed. Currently the colours are very pastel, with a lot of orange, green and yellow, but they’ll be brighter once finished and fired. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including spikes, waves, fans, branches, craters, brain coral, anemones and ridges.

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I’m hoping to get back to more work now. This piece is pressed from a new mould I’ve made. It’s not my usual way of working which is to hand sculpt every detail from fresh each time, but it will mean I can make quicker, more affordable pieces. #MarineLife #ceramic #coral #reef #sculpture

A hand holding a dome of unfired clay with a wriggling brain coral texture over the surface.

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Kyleguymonpottery @kyleguymonpottery.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Here’s another cup that I absolutely love and wish I had never sold. This style of sgraffito cup takes so long but when they turn out they are beautiful, #ceramics #pottery #porcelain #contemporaryart #celadon #jackelope #translucent #translucentporcelain

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