A square porcelain tile with a single beast on it in cobalt blue, ears back and tail curled round inside a ring of colour. Each one is drawn a little differently, so no two in a run are quite the same.
Bethan found the original on a medieval carving at the Hill of Slane in Ireland, on one of the site visits her work starts from, and brought it back into clay. The tile is rolled out from a slab and cut to shape, then stacked flat under a weight and turned over every day until it is dry, because a tile that dries unevenly warps.
Glazed and high fired in a Cardiff studio, so the surface is hard and wipes clean with a damp cloth.
Bethan Lowri Hughes Jones · Cerameg Traed BranA square porcelain tile with a single beast on it in cobalt blue, ears back and tail curled round inside a ring of colour. Each one is drawn a little differently, so no two in a run are quite the same.
Bethan found the original on a medieval carving at the Hill of Slane in Ireland, on one of the site visits her work starts from, and brought it back into clay. The tile is rolled out from a slab and cut to shape, then stacked flat under a weight and turned over every day until it is dry, because a tile that dries unevenly warps.
Glazed and high fired in a Cardiff studio, so the surface is hard and wipes clean with a damp cloth.
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.
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.
