Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

Ammonite bronze sculpture with verdigris patination

 

Royal Arch Trail Boulder

 

 

Entering a portal to a pathway of possibilities

 

Portals are highly symbolic of the numerous channels of discovery we can follow to experience our desired fulfilment. 

Every day we are reminded of their presence by the glorious spectacle of the sunrise, the light filtering through the countless natural portals, heralding the emergance of another dawn. The shifting shadows and colours creating a dancing dynamic for the perpetual movement of life’s chi. Portals represent possibilites and the pursuit of our vehicles to upliftment. Cuisines, fragrances, creativity, love, travel, imagination, fantasy, inspiration, spirituality are all portals we can encounter.

Natures portals that naturally exist sometimes become objects of worship, ceremony and reverance. A symbol of permanace and endurance, openess and belief , transition and initiation. Doors, gates, dreams and conscioussness also can act as portals. They can also represent a magical pathway as a test of strength, courage, or wisdom.

 A plethora of visual inspiration and interaction, inviting intrigue and mystique with this thought provoking phenomena.

 

 

Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Three Obliques’

 

Sheryl Zacharia- ‘Rocking Triangle’

 

 

 

‘Eclpise Basket’ – Dragonfly Pottery

 

 

‘Tenuous Membrane’ – improvisational, intuitive approach to bead embroidery

Thom Atkins

 

Barbara Hepworth  ‘Single Form’ 

1961

 

Barbara Hepworth  ‘Single Form’ 

 

 

‘Eye of the beholder’ – Mary Ann Prack

 

 

Minoan Labyrinth Wall Plaque

Midnight Moon-Celtic

This seven- circuit labyrinth dates back to 1200BC in Greece. A single continuous pathway winds into its centre. This same design has been found in Europe (Ireland, Denmark, Finland and Sweden) and South American Indian Tribes as well as India, Pakistan, Africa and Australia. Tracing the circuit with ones finger was used to calm the mind.

 

 

Peter Bremers

 

‘Holey Stone’  — I found this rock while swimming in the sea at Half Moon Bay, a Feng Shui enriched location.

Any stone that features a natural hole in it was regarded in the past to be a sacred object because it was created over extended time and is made by moving water. This makes it capable of holding the powers of the earth. The inherent strength of this gives it the ability for being a protection amulet and was used for attraction to the Elemental worlds. Magic can’t be cast on moving waters.

 

Hag Stone

Worn in ancient times as charms for banishing illness, protection for pets, avoiding bad dreams and nightmares, good luck on the water, protection for the home.

 

 

‘Rearranging the dots’ —  John Newdigate, Ian Garrett

 

 

Red Glass Vilano Sculpture by KatzGlassDesign

 

 

‘Richard Stratton’ — 1000 for Roses

 

 

Rigo Rivas

Abstraction and knowledge represent great portals

 

 

Samarkand ovoid neriage vase — Matsui Kosai

 

 

André Aleth Masson – French ceramicist

 

 

John Huggins sculpture

 

 

Blackhole-less Galaxy

 

 

Cupid and Psyche–Edward-burne Jones

1876

 

The Poet by Ossip Zadkine is a musician who is half tree and half person

 

 

Eastern spinebill,-Nelson, Victoria—-John Eley

 

Emptying the pottery kiln portal

 

 

Erik Johansson  — .’Reverberate’

 

 

Femke Muntz- Goddess Selene 

 

 

Fortune Teller Art Deco Lamp

 

Fresh Cut Physalis

The Flower Hub

 

 

‘Rider of the flower moon’ – Michelle Blade

 

 

Gustavo Perez

 

 

Granite sculpture by Matthew Maddocks

 

 

Fat Mama by Alex Fekete ‘Translucent, fragile, fluid yet hard, free blown Glass and its magical depths ‘

 

 

 

Akio Takamori

 

 

Glass sculpture — Peter Mandl

 

 

Greg Johns – transfigure 2

Shellcove Sculpture Walk

 

 

Hand sculpted ceramic lamp base, sculpture ‘Clémentine’ stylized face, stoneware with orange enamel

 

 

Janaina Tschäpe — ‘ Chorale’

 

 

Aleluia Factory, Aveiro Art Deco

 

 

Intricately carved wooden doors in a temple in Kathmandu, Nepal

 

 

 

Koroit Nut Boulder Opal

 

 

Mid Century Bertoncello Vase

Italy

 

 

Suzeiki Moonscape stone

 

 

Necklace counterpoise with aegis of Sakhmet

 

 

Manufacture of Muranese base tablel lamp depicting aquarium

 

 

Marzena Szczepanska ceramic vase

 

 

MC Dancers — Michael Vaynman

 

 

Mên an Tol, known locally as the Crick Stone, in Cornwall England.

Photograph Paul Williams

 

 

My amazing Ginger cat ‘Messiah’ spent several days chewing on the cardboard, maybe inspired by the portals on the box. A commendable feline sculptural attempt.

 He’s also very creative vocally.

 

Chichen Itza Kukulcan Pyramid during Spring Equinox. During this time, a shadow phenomenon draws the outline shape of the Mayan deity Kukulcan, responsible of creation and prosperity, can be witnessed.

 

 

Bamboo walk at the Crystal Castle

QLD

 

 

‘Lighting the Candle Within’  — Suzy Birstein

 

 

 

Mette Maya Ceramics

 

 

Peter Pincus

 

‘Portal to Another Time and Place’        — Deborah Halpern

 

 

 

Rose Quartz Crystal embrace

 

Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta, pierced black glass vase

1955

 

 

Indigenous Wandjina cave flanked left and right by the tail and head of a guardian Dragon

Grampians , Victoria

 

 

Vintage vase, Faience Factory Włocławek

 

 

Ming green “Vitrium” sculpture by glass artist Larry Pile

Kessler Craftsman

 

 

 

Zanetti Murano Glass Chalcedony bimorphic sculpture

 

 

Zeng Gang

 

 

Shard Fragments — Patrick Crabb

 

 

Suzeiki natural portal

 

 

Miss Costa Rica — Paola Chacón Fuentes

 

 

‘PastTimeRemembered’ vase – Douglas J Fisher

 

 

 

The Fountain of Life—17th Century Greek icon

 

 

Tony Laverick

 

 

Morning sunrise tulip portal

 

Tullio Crali (Italian, Futurism,  “In Free Fall (In Caduta Libera)”

1964

 

 

Turkish ceramic figure

 

 

Arachnids follow certain patterns to build their webs. Excellent meditation portal

for breaking from past restrictions.

 

 

Kan Yasuda —  Myomu (Key to a Dream),

2008

 

 

Michael Lucero — ‘North American Dreamer’ 

Slip glazed, earthenware

 

 

1960’s Red vase, West German pottery by Becht

 

 

Melike Bag Ceramics  — Terra Cotta handmade Vase

 

 

Moroccan Black Marble on an Oak and Perspex Plinth

Oumuamua

 

 

Desert Pueblo wedding pottery

 

 

Daio Dharma Suiseki stone

 

Cinque Torri Mountain -The Five Towers

 

 

BRAZIER—‘Holding Fire’ — T Barny

 

 

Indigenous inspired art on a manhole cover in Perth, Australia by Ole Reidar Johansen

 

 

Magnolia bloom September Spring portal, 2024

 

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