A one-off artisan piece made during my research into encaustic tiles. I wanted to experiment with the technique using a design I created in response to John Ruskin's theory of realism and the impact it had on William Morris, who led the Arts and Crafts Movement.
A one-off artisan piece made during my research into encaustic tiles. I wanted to experiment with the technique using a design I created in response to John Ruskin's theory of realism and the impact it had on William Morris, who led the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Bethan Lowri Hughes Jones carves a pattern into wet clay, floods the hollow with coloured slip, then scrapes the surface back to find out whether it worked. She works in Welsh, from a studio at Fireworks Clay Studios in Cardiff, and she will teach you the method as well as sell you the result.