WHITE BOWL, BLACK BOWL, A CELEBRATION OF CHERRY TOMATOES

I made this white bowl, then I made a rough copy in black.
I liked them. I put cherry tomatoes in them.




I made this square dish. I liked it. I put cherry tomatoes in it.

I have been obsessing about this shape for a pendant for three months, and was making slow progress in Kelvin Birk's casting class at Mary ward centre. The bowl on the right is by artist Nicolas Rena.

In my kitchen and laboratory, which is the theatre of many of my experiments, there was an egg shell in the bin. Cherry tomatoes in the fridge.

I thought I could achieve my shape with  the combined help of the egg and the tomato.

 Eggshell, cherry tomato on a skewer and small pan for melting wax, bit of oil on shell and tomato, let's go !










My results were interesting, but as usual, not quite what I was aiming for ! Here we go : wax models

And off to Just Casting and a couple of finished pieces in bronze :

These pendants need polishing, but I really like the one with the dove flying under the moon.

Ten years ago, I had drawn these doves at a workshop at the V & A.

So strange that they landed on my pendant !!