White stroke vessel

Tom Kemp started mixing black porcelain as a way of experimenting without glaze, which is a thin layer of glass coating a work and is often quite shiny. The white stroke, perhaps bizarrely, is derived from an ancient Roman letterform, just executed much more rapidly and, of course, on a curved surface. He thinks of it as an intimate record of those few moments when that was all he had to do in the world.

Glaze, Porcelain, Vase

Crafted by

Tom Kemp