Contact Information

Email: mollythomas0210@gmail.com

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Image Library - Dioramas

'The Four Horsewomen of the apocalypse'

Cocktus Pots -

Medium - Ceramic, Glaze, Oil. 10 x 6.

Commission Examples

Alongside producing personalised work I also work on a large scale commission basis for companies and and local establishments.

Exhibition work

Baby Blue

2019

Walcott Exhibition

For this piece of work I had to consider a multitude of drawbacks and limits. Meaning I had to abide by a given theme, publicity and the audience. Firstly I focused on who would see the piece, and would it be acceptable for all audiences? Although usually I’m drawn to the nude and erotica I thought I would take a step back from my practice and focus on what else intrigues me in art.

I have always loved the depiction of cherubs and the baby Jesus as they can either be beautifully wholesome or almost nightmarish and demonic. Drawing children takes a very trained hand in my opinion, capturing the character is much more difficult than that of a fully grown man as they have subtleties, like the setting of their eyes, how long their jaw is etc. I, myself am not a painter and have only just stepped my foot into the world of anatomy and so I thought my best option would be to sculpt a baby head as I find working physically in 3D helps me capture form as I visualise it differently.

Originally I was going to sculpt a small boy, in the fashion the nursery rhyme “little boy blue” which is a English folk song in which he is depicted in overalls and blowing a trumpet. However I though this nod to history may have been lost in translation. I also thought that I would not be entirely true to my art unless the work was kitsch or wacky. Hence the head pot.

I chose to initially sculpt the baby head in wax, however I found it hard to work with as I kept cutting too deep into the wax, as a more stable medium I moved to Fimo clay, as it adapted to my tools easily and kept the detail. Fimo is also an oven clay and so I was able to bake the head along the way so they shape would not morph during the sculpting process.

Using the Fimo head, I made a hard and a soft mould, one out of silicon and the other out of Fimo. Making this mould allowed me to capture the detail for every head and save a lot of time in the process. However I wish I had made it smaller as it may have given a different feel to the overall pot.

Finally following the theme which was “into the blue” I decided to keep the idea of a little boy and blue, hence the name “baby blue”. I had to research glaze recipes as the vast majority in both the library and on the Internet seemed to be turquoise or too dark, eventually and after a few tests I found the perfect tone, light enough that it was subtle and not too garish but pigmented enough that it is definitely blue.