Puddle Platter Green Lochan MEDIUM

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A  presentation platter for cheese, fruit, cake, also a chopping board (for light work). These puddle platters are free-form, each one different to the last, glazed to reflect the colours of the waters of North West Scotland. Hang them on a hook in the kitchen as functional art.

All pieces are hand-built and so have deliberate irregularities and unintentional asymmetries. Sizes approximate.

Clay: Premium Sanded Buff, with sand for extra ‘tooth’ and incorporating Coombe Fireclay, rich in iron producing a light fleck

Glaze:

A Blue Lagoon: Blue Surf, Oxide Green, Tin White edge

B Green Lochan: Celadon, Aurora Green, Oxide Green, Tin White edge

C Turquoise Pool: Island Turquoise, Rusty Mottle edge

Mimi’s hand-built stoneware pieces are inspired by her love of the seashore on the south coast, and of the more rugged north-west coast of Scotland. Following a successful career as a fashion journalist, magazine editor and non-fiction author (she wrote the best-selling 5:2 Fast Diet with Dr Michael Mosley), Mimi has now found her happy place making beautiful ceramics in Hove.

Some are functional, others more sculptural - but all are eroded by hand as if by the elements, in the colours of the ocean and the earth. This is the first time her works have been exhibited.