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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

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.
It's been a slow and exhausting start to the year; It's been a slow and exhausting start to the year; full of frustrations, annoying health issues and a disorientating dose of ableist bullshit just to really get things going. However, I'm a glass half full kinda girl. Yesterday I saw a whole bed of yellow daffs waving at me from a neighbours garden. Their brightness pierced my brain after weeks of gloom. They awakened me with reminders of blue skies and the gentle warmth of Spring. Things to look forward to!
There is a world of chaos out there that breaks my heart. And I'm taking a breath and feeling grateful for it. Because I'm able to, when others can't.
Today was pottery again and my favourite time of the week. It's been a scratchy start to the year, but today I found my flow again, and I can't tell you how good it felt. #newyear #pottery
Fantasy Fungi I love this very organic, instinctu Fantasy Fungi

I love this very organic, instinctual way of creating. The pieces develop themselves. I just channel thoughts of forest and let my hands do the talking. I never know how it's going to come out and it's always a lovely surprise. Each piece is a separate component, and can be exhibited alone or in composition with others to create a myriad of ever evolving landscapes.

#fungi #ceramics #pottery #contemporaryceramics #forest
Trying out my new light box to photograph my ceram Trying out my new light box to photograph my ceramic work. Love being able to adjust the light intensity and warmth. Bonus to be able to fold it all down into a flat box for storage too!

#ceramic #pottery #fungi #forest #airplants

Reel shows image of light box and fungi inspired ceramic sculptural vessel containing water and adorned with air plants.
Tudor carpet waterer, complete with Shakespearean Tudor carpet waterer, complete with Shakespearean inspired insults.

Clay-brained miscreant
Bawdy hedge-pig
Spleeny canker-blossom
Onion-eyed malt-worm
Beslubbering gorbellied pignut

A carpet waterer was used to dampen the dust and reeds that covered the floors of Tudor houses.

The unglazed bottom of the pot is pierced with over fifty holes. The top has a neck narrow enough to be held between two upturned fingers, allowing the thumb to rest over the single hole on the top of the pot.

To fill the pot you fully submerge it in water, keeping your thumb over the top hole to create a vacuum to keep the water in. You lift your thumb off the hole to sprinkle the water through the holes at the bottom. The pot had to be light enough to be carried by one hand, even when full of water.

#carpetwaterer #thumbwaterer #tudor #ceramics #sgraffito
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