Warren Mather’s exploration of the image transfer process resonates with my intense study of image transfer processes on a variety of substrates. He experimented for many years with several image transfer techniques in an effort to combine his two passions: photography and clay.
Telephone Pole, 30″ diameter. Read more about this image here.
Mather eventually developed a process that includes transferring his digital images onto silkscreens then printing with a ceramic underglaze onto wet clay. You can see his process here.
Downtown Crossing, 30.5″ diameter
The Massachusetts resident, who teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, hand colors the imagery from video stills and digital photographs that are used on the tile murals and plates in his most recent collection.
Copley Square, 21″ diameter
“I have been working with clay for thirty years, and in the last five years have developed the technical means to fire photographic, video and computer drawn images in ceramic glaze. My digital images are transferred onto silk-screens and printed with ceramic underglaze onto wet clay. After bisque, a clear glaze is applied and fired.”
Mather’s 2010 show at the Fuller Museum.
Click on the image to get a sense of the scale of these pieces.
“All seeing is subjective. We don’t see in rectangles. Clay offers a hard copy of my vision.” Warren Mather
Website: Warren Mather
You can also find his work at LaCoste Gallery
I am fascinated with the photo transfer process and would love to know more about this. I work with polymer clay and also do solar plate etching. I am beginning to explore the abstract in nature imagery and am very drawn to this work which is just stunning.