Bubble Pot and Low Plate

I recently added 2 new designs to my collection to make it flow. I designed a round plant pot with the cut out bubbles randomly placed; the pot is shorter than the vases I’ve designed but taller than the fruit bowl. I wanted to have pieces in a range of sizes and shapes, but still keep the theme of recognisable vessel forms visible. I was worried about doing the mould for this pot because the bubbles are cut inwards which creates more potential for the plaster to catch in the different bubble holes. As long as I keep the bubbles minimum, and have the bubble less than half way cut out then the mould should work. The pot required a 3 part mould, and a base for the foot ring, and it worked successfully.


The low plate was designed to be a drop out mould, it was a more simple design, but still had to be thought out well so that it would drop out in one part when cast. The bubbles are extruded out the plate like the vases yet more spaced out around a plate shape. All my designs begin with a basic vessel shape that I split into 5mm layers, I then use this form to match up the layered bubbles to the vessel, and this makes it easier to design my pieces by working to the guide. I go through around 20 variations of each design I’ve done to get the piece right, it's a lengthy process overall.

 Above are just a few images of the moulds and casting in the making.