Cabby Luxford
“Raku fired horse with screen printed transfers and horseshoe nails”
Price £180
Height (max) 190 mm x Width (max) 230 mm
Weight: 4.5lbs
This horse is fired using the raku method. This exciting technique results in cracking on the piece which are highlighted with the smoking in the reduction bin. My sister provides me with horseshoe nails! These are fired in situ. The added roses are underglaze transfers and will never fade.
The nails are a little rough so care needs to be taken when moving the piece.
“Tall lidded smoke-fired vessel with Thames find“
Price £95
Height (max, inc find) 270mm Width (max) 90mm
This piece is thrown on the potters wheel, burnished and smoke fired. Copper wire in the firing produces the fine lines, the fumes flow around the pot and created random markings and colours. This vessel has a foreshore find attached to the lid with copper wire.
Decorative only,
“Smoked sphere“
Price £85
240mm tall, 170mm wide
This sphere started life on the potters wheel. It is then burnished (smoothed) and fired in an electric kiln. Wrapped in foil with various additives (ferric, copper etc) it is saggar fired in a smoke bin. Polished with microcrystalline wax brings out the rich colours and finish.
Non-functional – decorative only. Not waterproof.
“Large smoked vase”
Price £110
Size: 38cms x 18cms
Formed on the potters wheel this piece is burnished and fired in an electric kiln. Additives such as copper and ferric are added.
Copper wire creates the fine lines of the piece, it is finally fired in a smoke bin.
The vase is internally sealed and waterproofed.
“Three little smoked bottles”
Price £120
Size: 22cms high
Three little bottles that have been thrown on the potters wheel, burnished, fired in an electric kiln and then smoked in a bin with additives including copper wire (this creates the fine lines). Each has a found piece of treasure. One is from the Thames, two have medieval buckles found by metal detection.
Decorative Only.
Cabby uses alternative firing techniques for her highly burnished pieces including Indian smoke firing and raku. Her work often marries her passion for clay and also for mudlarking – searching for ‘treasure’ on the foreshore of the River Thames. Words are often added to her pieces and often so are the finds that she discovers. The firing techniques add a sense of age to the pieces. ‘For me, this process echos the unknown journey of the artefacts I find, a hidden story of lost and found. It delights the inner child in me to discover these pieces, and to free them from their watery grave and to becoming part of a visual piece of artwork.
Contact Telephone Number: 07730 551 011
Payment Methods Accepted: Paypal (my online shop accepts secure ‘Stripe’ payments via credit and debit cards)
Website: www.cabbyluxford.com
How to buy:
Please telephone me on the number above if you wish to purchase an item.
Or
Follow this https://www.cabbyluxford.com/store/ to go to my on-line shop.
Delivery: Packing and Posting offered at a reasonable cost. Happy to deliver within a 50 mile radius of Gatwick for fuel costs.
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