Hand crafted so each is unique, your ‘Leaping Hare’ garden plaque is 20cm wide and 16cm high and about 2.5cm thick.
It takes many hours of Karen’s skill to create this garden plaque and it will live for many, many years blending beautifully into your garden.
We’re really so, so chuffed at being able to offer Karen’s garden plaques. Not only are they absolutely gorgeous but each takes at least 2 – 3 weeks of careful skilled application – and each will be totally unique.
Karen will mould your plaque, then carefully carve away excess clay while it is allowed to dry naturally.
After the clay is dry, your plaque is given its first firing. This turns the fragile clay into a ceramic which is strong enough for Karen’s next process. She will apply a metal oxide solution, then scrub it off to really bring out the surface texture. Liquid clay and glaze is applied, then comes the second firing. This is at 1280 degrees centigrade, so the clay is totally vitrified making the plaques safe to be left out in all weathers.
Karen lives and works in Somerset and produces plaques and sculptures which are heavily influenced both by her love of gardening, and the surrounding landscape.
You may have to wait a little while for one of her plaques – but it will bring something so inimitable, so unrepeatable, to your garden for generations to come that a short wait is really worth putting up with!
Never has the phrase ‘small but perfectly formed’ been more apt than when applied to these carefully and skilfully crafted ceramics.
They are, simply, a delight.
