Aroha Vessel - small Garden Festival

Aroha Vessel - small Garden Festival280mm high Beautifully organic in form, this vessel is handcrafted using the traditional slab and coil ceramic methods. After being hand painted and etched, through a technique called sgraffito, it has been fired twice in the kiln firstly to harden the painting and the clay. Then again to create the lustrous golden interior. Amber Smith is a ceramic artist and printmaker honouring her ties to Ngti Wai through her child. Her words in te Reo Mori and

practise and use everyday words in te reo Māori

May calm spread all around you May the sea glisten like greenstone

Print size 450mm X 645mm

170mm H x 120mm W x 30mm D

Nic understands the importance of land and its connection to the people which continues to inspire her woodcut prints

This series of work uses our native birds as both subject and object

Inside diameter 69mm

Opened edition

myth-like worlds

25mm diameter

Sterling silver with 22ct gold edge

organic forms