Woodland utensils
Curious utensils are created with porcelain and mixed media. Obscure or unidentified tools, spoons and other utensils are grouped and framed to form a set of unique wall pieces aimed at sparking the imagination or triggering a memory.
Elaine Sheppard Bolt
East Sussex, England
Woodland Utensils 'Arboretum', The New CraftsmenFramed ceramics and mixed media assemblage with porcelain, red stoneware, red wild clay berries and spoon, white porcelain fern, found rubber and metal pieces, black oxide stained porcelain spoon, red wild clay spoon, white porcelain grasses, acorn and berries, wire.
Woodland Utensils, The New CraftsmenFramed ceramics and mixed media assemblages with porcelain and other ceramic objects including spoons, grasses and berries. Found objects include metal ship’s nails, twigs and lichen, held in the frame with wire.
Detail of a Woodland Utensil composition, The New CraftsmenPorcelain, local clay, stoneware and natural materials
Detail from a Woodland Utensil composition, The New CraftsmenColoured porcelain, stoneware, local clay and found objects in a framed composition
Woodland Utensils composition, Elaine BoltColoured porcelain, stoneware, local clay and found objects in a framed composition
Woodland Utensils 'Underwood', The New CraftsmenA framed composition created in porcelain, stoneware and mixed media, including bark, lichen and twigs