SACRIFICIAL STONE SERIES

(2018-2020) ‘Sacrificial Stone Series’ centres on the research of Alfred Watkins, a Herefordian naturalist from the early 1900’s. Verity is fascinated by the mystery surrounding Watkins’ work/documentation which includes photographs and maps.

The title ‘Sacrificial Stone’ came from one of Watkins’ maps. Verity was intrigued by this atmospheric mysterious place name which to her evokes a sense of the surreal, stone like, obscured and encaged. Verity has since been using clay to explore the images and feelings that she associates with these words.

Verity creates a stone like surface on her slab built forms by applying texture and monoprinting using coloured slips. Verity evokes a feeling of her forms being obscured and encaged by layering up monoprints that reference grids and meshes. Verity cuts up these slabs of clay and collages them together to create stone like forms, employing a ‘Thinking through Making’ approach.

These works range in height from 8cm - 38cm. Medium: black or white stoneware clay, coloured slips and underglaze. All photos courtesy of Dan Barker Studios.

A selection of these pieces are available to purchase directly from Verity’s studio. Please CONTACT Verity if you require further details about the works.