Ruth Elizabeth Jones

Comet Trail Moon Jar

I began working with large spherical forms after visiting the British Museum. There I saw Lucie Rie’s 17th Century Moon Jar. Unlike the traditional Korean thrown pieces, my Moon Jars, are coil-built with layers of pressed, grogged white clay. A carbonised trail tracks around the surface of this piece as a result of the smoke-firing process.<br>Marks made in the textured clay are produced during a meditative process of scraping and refining creating an extremely light responsive surface. This vessel evokes ideas of containment and holding, and of weightlessness and floating. <br>

Moon Jar 1

A fine monochrome hand-built and smoke-fired vessel in spherical form. The textured, carbonised surface has a dark side (see image) and a light side and is highly responsive to changes in light. The vessel evokes thoughts of containment while the fine foot provides a sense of weightlessness and floating.

Moon Jar 4

The textured, carbonised surface of this fine hand-built and smoke-fired vessel has multiple qualities according to the viewing angle. The vessel is highly responsive to changes in light evoking ideas of containment while the fine foot provides a sense of weightlessness and floating.

Mother Vessel

This hand-built and smoke-fired vessel evokes ideas of fertility and the holding of potential and promise. The textured, carbonised surface has multiple qualities according to the viewing angle and is highly responsive to changes in light.<br>Inspired in part by European neolithic works from matriarchal societies.<br>

Holding Vessel 12

This hand-built and smoke-fired vessel evokes ideas of fertility and the holding or containment of potential and promise, like an egg. The textured, carbonised surface has multiple qualities according to the viewing angle and is highly responsive to changes in light.<br>Inspired in part by European neolithic works from matriarchal societies.<br>

Holding Vessel 15

This hand-built and smoke-fired vessel evokes ideas of containment and holding The textured, carbonised surface has multiple qualities according to the viewing angle and is highly responsive to changes in light.<br>Inspired in part by European neolithic works from matriarchal societies.<br>

Holding – Offering

A two-piece composition, hand-built from white textured clay and smoke-fired. In part, inspired by European neolithic works from matriarchal societies and notions of giving and holding or containing.

Holding – Offering (detail)

Detail of texture.

Holding – Offering (detail)

Detail of texture and lip.