Jack Welbourne Side Plate, Herringbone

A wheel thrown side plate decorated with a hand applied herringbone pattern, and an unglazed exterior that takes on a beautiful toasted colour during its gas firing. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne set up studio in Cardiff, where he produces wheel-thrown stoneware in red Cornish clay, gas-fired using glazes mixed in his studio (sometimes using materials dug locally, combined with potash, chalk, iron oxide and flint). Jack is inspired by the concave curvatures of neolithic Chinese and early Korean clayware. Measures approximately 19cm in diameter, 2.5cm high.