Mauria te pono - vessel

18 x 5 x 5 cm

Mauria te pono
Believe in yourself

Technique & Process

After being hand-painted and etched, through a technique called sgraffito, it has been fired twice in the kiln - firstly to harden the clay and painting and again to create the lustrous golden interior.

No two vessels can ever be the same, unique and one of a kind, a special and meaningful piece.

About Amber Smith

I love words and nearly always use them in my work. Maori whakatauki (proverbs) and waiata aroha (songs about the nature of love) have such an emotional resonance that they become part of the image itself.

Amber works with ceramics in the same way as a printmaker etches in intaglio plate. All the images and words are intuitively drawn, and the detail carved back into the black ink with a stylus. The hearts, vessels and bowls are all hand built. Each piece, has been crafted as an individual work without any use of transfers or stencils. Amber loves words and nearly always use them in her work. Maori whakatauki (proverbs) and waiata aroha (songs about the nature of love) have such an emotional resonance that they become part of the image itself.