Email: d.ghawkes@hotmail.com    

Clay is my obsession! It has been for 15 of the 25 years that I have spent living on the North Coast of NSW.  

Inspiration for my work comes not only from my lived experiences but also from within, when I immerse myself totally in the process.

Over the years I have experienced a fascination for the process of Raku and the masked form. The contemporary Raku style of firing that I use captures a dynamic that comes alive when everything falls into place.  

The masked form also provides me with a canvas, a vehicle for expression.

Colour, form, fire, textures, layered with experiences, archaic, ancestral, unearthed and contrast are just some of the words that come to mind when I think of the clay.
I have impresed the clay with universal computer symbols and the binary code of today, written in words that represent the systems we use and the main ways we communicate around the world today. I sense this process runs parallel with the earliest written language, Cuneiform script. 

Reflection

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