Frances
Osborne
My forms are inspired by ancient objects from around the world , hand built with white stoneware, they are burnished then fired to a thousand degrees centigrade I then decorate them with patterns of wet clay, this acts as a resist. I have built an outside kiln were I burn straw and paper to create smoke this gives colours of grey, yellow, black, which penetrate the surface, finally finishing with beeswax and some gilding, they are all unique and different.