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Love a good #crackletexture 😍 #naturetexture inspiration from Australia. Especially love the little kangaroo paw flowers! 🦘 I'm taking a much needed break for a few weeks. 😴 Shop will stay open (to secure artworks) but all orders will be couriered AFTER 12th Dec. #happyholidays #takingabreak w: karenwilde.art Shaking out the paper armatures from my ceramics (after bisque firing) is strangely satisfying. #Terracotta and #glacier colours for this work in progress. Both KererΕ« have found their forever home 🐦🐦 I will miss having these two #fatbirds on display. I'm going on holiday next week so my shop will be closed from 20th Nov until mid Dec: karenwilde.art Off to it's forever home! 🏠 Fresh from the kiln #ceramic #worksinprogress Big boi finished (working title) Exhibtion piece in ceramic, experimental glazes and blue patina copper. Finished! (Working title) #ceramic and #copperwire with patina finish. #ceramic #sea #urchin made from #NZ red clay, earthenware fired with various experimental glaze and #beachglass Closeups of #bluepatina applied to copper #wireweave sections πŸ’™ Tiffany #bluepatina tying it all together 🫢 πŸ’™ Finished! #exhibiton piece. Black clay ceramic, site-specific slip, glaze, beach glass, copper wire, patina, 2022 (working title) I was not expecting such dramatic results in my first ever pit firing. On impluse late last night, I wrapped this wee owl up in a little nest of organic garden materials sprinkled with salt then tossed in a backyard fire we recently built for summer night chillax sessions. Needless to say, after seeing the result, I will be spending a lot of time sitting around the fire this season! πŸ”₯πŸ™Œ My first #pitfire object #pottery #owl πŸ¦‰ This wee guy is made from black clay, white and iron rich slips, then fired in a tinfoil #saggar with organic garden waste, salt and copper wire fragments. Latest #surfaceexperiments with glass, sand and metals. Full #kilnunpack video available on my YouTube Channel πŸ‘€ #experimentalart πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ 🎨 Mixing reactive glaze, bronze fragments and sea glass over an already fired piece. Fingers crossed something magic happens in the kiln πŸͺ„πŸ”₯ Wire work complete! ready for the final patina process. What are your thoughts on this #mixedmedium piece? Wire weave progress. Slow but satisfying. Exciting news! This piece has been selected for the finals for the Emerging Artist Award 2022. Exhibition will be held at the Upstairs Gallery in Titirangi. Opening night 14th Oct 6pm. Come say hello πŸ€— Experimenting with woven materials and ceramics. What do you think? #Object Animalia #sculpture in black clay, shino, metallics and #natural fibres. 7.5x6x4cm. w: karenwilde.art Before and after. Lowfired in electric kiln with recycled materials including beach glass, metallics and site-specific slip (west coast beaches) Little teaser of my latest kiln unpack πŸ‘€πŸ”₯ Full video and details of this firing will be up on my YouTube channel next week: Karen Wilde Art Closeups of the smaller #round #vessel with similar #experimental glaze pattern and #recycled amber glass. As promised, more close ups and angles of the bigger work in progress. This piece is a continuation of my studies around #holes ontology, combined with my growing fascination of macro #organic surfaces and #glaze alchemy. Also there is no "blue glaze" in this piece, the colours are all caused by chemical reactions from experimental metallics, whites and layered slips. Thrilled with my latest #kilnunpack 🀩 These pieces are not finished, I will be adding woven wire and #experimenting with the final form. Uploading more juicy #drippy #glaze closeups soon along with a full-length process video on my YouTube channel: Karen Wilde Art I don't make identifyable objects very often but I've been wanting to make this decomposing #snappersculpture #fishskeleton for a while now. Working from a sketch idea, I will attempt to create the spines and tail from wire after firing. While #ceramics has become a favourite medium within my art practice, I've always been a fan of mixed medium artworks - including weaving, textiles, metalwork, woodwork, recycled materials and found objects. As my practice grows, I will slowly start reintroducing these different materials and processes back into my artworks in ways that compliment each element. Final touches on these two rad #contemporaryart pieces, hoping to fire tomorrow. Find out more about my practice on my website: karenwilde.art More from last night's #glazesession πŸ‘€ 🎨 Almost ready for round two of firing. Late night #glazing 🎨 For some annoying reason I feel most creative when I'm really tired. I start to see patterns in my vision and my brush strokes are less controlled and more #gestural

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