Large Dark Iron Blue Rattling Bottle by Kirsti Hannah Brown

Held inside this small stoneware bottle are porcelain seashells which give a gentle rattle when shaken.

The colour is applied with slip that has then been carved through to reveal the white clay underneath. A soft satin glaze is applied before the final firing. The result is a stunning piece of contemporary ceramic featuring texture, deep blues and ochres.

Dimensions: (H) 11cm x (W - at widest point) 9cm 

Contemporary Ceramicist Kirsti Hannah Brown creates stoneware ceramics inspired by coastal landscapes

"My inspiration comes from the landscape, not the totally wild landscape, but the one we as humans have lived and worked in for millennia. I grew up in and around Chester in the 1970’s when archaeological digs seemed to be everywhere. As a child I was made to walk up to hill forts and standing stones in my Clark’s Polyvelts. I had thought I wanted to be an archaeologist until I realised I needed to be more studious and I love making things much more than writing.

I am a hand builder, I respond to the freedom and the difference that each process enables. Slab built pieces have a figurative presence and variation is added through size, slip and glaze finishes. Pinched clay creates either thin seashell like pieces or more substantial Neolithic inspired work with incised marks inspired by ancient rock carvings."