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Amelia Johannsen visual artist implementing parts of nature into her works

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Kaori Tatebayashi ceramic plant life

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Pheobe Cummings makes hyper realistic plants

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Hitomi Hosono inspired by the garden she grew up in

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Zulieka Melluish makes intricate flower presses and replicas

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Anna Berra

Inspired by nature and fossils

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Ruth Gibson, inspired by fossils

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Jonathan Dazzo from Kentucky USA

Known for fossilized fish cups and functional items

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Everything fired and glazed

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Jug glazed and ready to be fired

Tin glaze base with blue, red, green slip on top. Tulips were a mix of orange and red and sun yellow with some orange and Tin glaze over both. Bones and fossils got one more layer to make them stand out.

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Leaving glaze behind on tile and small pinch pot to show marks of dead flowers

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Large jug and mini jug side by side after firing

Added a Sun to the garden side of large jug

Both used coil methods

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Garden side of jug

Appliqué tulips to represent the 3D physical flower that you can touch/feel next to the imprinted tulips to represent the dead/decaying plant

I used wire to press into the jug and make an imprint, my original attempt was to press the wire into the clay and let it burn out and rust in the kiln, but it proved nearly impossible after bending wire for an hour I switched methods

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One side of terracotta jug

Used bisque fired mold to press shapes of bones, fossils, shells and applied them to the jug to make it look like it’s buried in the soil

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Beads and watering jug fired and glazed

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Mugs and small watering jug after firing

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Working on large water jug

Using the coil method with terracotta clay, approximately 7 inches tall