https://www.lisabelsky.com/ Uses porcelain slip Each piece begins as hand knit or crocheted fabric. The fabric is manipulated, shaped and then dipped into porcelain slip. During the firing process the original fabric burns away leaving behind a ceramic remnant or record of what was once there. The stitches, now preserved as clay, have become the structure …
Why did I start? Where am I now!
I have been making these figurative wet felted sculptures for over 10 years and people often ask me when, why and how, I started to make them - not the easiest question really! Several thoughts though - I have worked figuratively since about 2005 and the first sculpture I made was for the final show of …
Prism Exhibition Hoxton London
Our 2019 Prism Exhibition at the Hoxton Arches Gallery is on until Sunday 9th June! Its well worth a visit!! There are over 60 textile artists exhibiting...... a taste of their work.
Firing Day
I’m going to drum fire two ceramic figures today - it will be a first! I am going to sagger each figure in foil to protect them and to see how the organic materials I am adding might colour the figures. Process I wrapped two lengths of ceramic insulating fabric around the steel drum just …
Ceramic & textile sculptures
Finally ready for the fire. To create these figures I started with a twisted wire skeleton and covered it with ribbon cut from a medium weight wool/acrylic sweater. I then coated the wool fabric liberally with paper clay slip. Once this layer had dried I applied ribbons of wool fabrics soaked in the clay slip - …
