Pebble forms by UK ceramic artist Emma Williams – what’s not to love? Williams creates the pebbles by joining pinch pots, shaping the forms with a variety of tools and piercing each pebble with a small hole to allow air to escape during the firing process. This would be the ultimate worry stone for me – I don’t need the indented thumb rest found on traditional worry stones – just give me one of these orbs with their soothing colors and I’m good to go.
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Decorative details are created by pressing fossils and handmade stamps into the clay. I also mask areas with paper stencils and texture the clay with tools.
Don’t miss her equally compelling coil built forms here.
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This can be done with polymer clay too… hard to go bigger than 2″ in dia. though, ceramics allows just about any size, as long as the kiln is big enough.
Boy, she totally hits the sweet spot with energetic movement from spirals and outwardly-moving patterns and random effects combined with soothing, natural colors. It’s sort of like a meditation on what’s best about Mother Earth. What a gift.
I treated myself to one of these just before Christmas last year. Found a dish of them in the Brook Street Pottery in Hay-on-Wye.
Mine’s an egg-shape, about 5 inches long/3 inches wide, and has a triple-circle design on it. (looks a bit like the spiral-thing at Newgrange, but not quite!)
The lovely shades of Prussian Blue and purples caught my eye straight away..
….it sits near me on a piece of cleaned-up driftwood that seemed to have been just made for it….