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Kristina Veasey

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Multi-layered artist. Sculpture, installation, crafts, digital art/sound/film. Identity, routines, connection, provocation, commonalities & difference

Wild and Naked; found clay, left unglazed. Gorgeou Wild and Naked; found clay, left unglazed.
Gorgeous chunky textures of red clay; a reminder of forest walks and the damp earthy smells of the understory.

#nature #pottery #ceramics #wildclaypottery  #synaesthesia

Reel shows an unglazed ceramic pot covered in slips and chunky wild clay, holding dried stems of seed pods.
Ceramic enchanted woodland piece made last year. B Ceramic enchanted woodland piece made last year. Bringing a little of the forest into the domestic. Magical at dusk with candlelight glowing through the gaps.

#trees #forest #textures #ceramics #nature

Reel shows images of a ceramic tree stump with textured surface and living moss.
Experimenting with layering glazes for a watery la Experimenting with layering glazes for a watery lagoon look for a larger piece I'm working on. This is soo divine though, I just want to dive right in!

#glazes #ceramic #water #blue #artist

Reel shows layered, watery glaze pooled in ceramic bowl.
New textures! #clay #contemporaryceramics #textur New textures!

#clay #contemporaryceramics #textures #pottery #ceramics

Reel shows textures being added to bone dry clay
I took these photographs of fungi in the forest du I took these photographs of fungi in the forest during my R&D for Capturing the Forest. Their alien forms and striking colours were just so beautiful. I am often drawn to making repeating patterns in my work. I like the simplicity of using a single image to create something new, and l love the complexity of the new images revealed through tesselation. It feels like order and chaos all at once. Reflecting on that now, it probably serves both my autistic desire for clarity and order whilst simultaneously serving my adhd need for variety and excitement. The resulting pattern, and indeed the fungi itself, is so rich and textural I could eat it. But as an image it felt a bit static and flat. For something found growing in a hedgerow that's teeming with life, this didn't seem right. My decision to animate the image came from a want to breathe life into the pattern and give centre stage back to this wonderful fungi.

#fungi #surfacepatterndesign #forest #artist #audhd
Rise, 2024 Unglazed black clay with white slip U Rise, 2024 
Unglazed black clay with white slip

Upturned soil
Rupture
The ground rises.
It takes new forms, casts new shadows, reinvents the landscape and transforms our connection with it.

Revisiting work I've made over the last couple of years, since starting my journey into ceramics. Still as fascinated by texture, the soft and pliable, the rough and crusty; and the literal earthiness of the clay. So grounding and elemental. Like plunging my bare arms deep down into the soil, grasping the very essence of nature and drawing it in to my very soul.

Image shows crusty, earthy clay sculpture from different viiewpoints

#synaesthesia #pottery #sculpture #artist #audhd
Ah the joys of managing a broken autonomic nervous Ah the joys of managing a broken autonomic nervous system! This is just one of the reasons for my Slow Art practice. Maybe I would have arrived there anyway, but framing it this way and leaning into the slower, fuller processes and lived experiences surrounding my work, brings depth and layers that a faster, on demand approach would miss. I live and breathe my projects, a benefit of diving into periods of hyperfocus. It's not something I can switch off or put to one side, it's all consuming. It simultaneously stimulates and invigorates, leading and teasing, pulling and weaving, infiltrating every waking moment. And if I'm in the flow it's utterly irritating to be dragged back out. It's the one place of calm where everything makes sense. Re-entering the world, I'm hit with a wall of exhaustion and pain. It's about the only time I'm able to fall asleep easily. My brain just shuts off and goes into recovery and reboot. If only I felt refreshed on waking! 

#artist #audhd #disability #slowart #sleep

Reel shows image of artist awake and sat in on a sofa in her  living room, followed by an image of her seconds later having fallen asleep.
Ancient Yews at Kingley Vale in the #southdownsnat Ancient Yews at Kingley Vale in the #southdownsnationalpark
Mystical, enchanting, otherworldly. Grand and stoic, our guardians of the natural world.

#trees #capturingtheforest #ancientwoodland #eastsussex

Reel shows black and white photographic images of ancient Yew trees at Kingley Vale.
Adding some magic with vinegar and bicarb. So many Adding some magic with vinegar and bicarb. So many tiny bubbles rising and bursting, foaming and dripping; forming new textures and etching new landscapes.

#clay #texture #sculpture #ceramics #pottery

Reel shows addition of vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to a clay sculpture and the resulting fizzing and bubbling.
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