Pamela Sunday and Gabrielle Baecille

Pamela Sunday and Gabrielle Baecille are doth ceramic artists who specialise in hand build ceramic forms based on natural forms and textures. Both artists are inspired by nature and science and can be both abstract and representational.
Pamela Sunday is especially inspired by illustration artist Ernst Haeckel who specialises in scientific illustrations showing the forms and their contours.

Sunday's pieces can constrastquite dramatically; sometimes they will have a Matt finish giving a worn look like coral or rock and sometimes they will have a very strong metallic glaze which is very striking giving a completely different agenda making her pieces appear mechanical or manmade.

Her pieces almost always start from an orb or circular shape and like Gabrielle baecille can sometimes resemble stone, coral and crustaceans.
Like Pamela Sunday Gabrielle Baecille is also inspired by crustaceans, sponges and other natural forms. Her pieces are more oval in shape and normally consist of more than one form joined together.

She is sometimes inspired by the natural process of germination making her pieces look like something may have been living inside like an egg or cocoon.  Her pieces are more linear in shape to Pamela Sunday's as Pamela's work resolves around one main shape where as Bascilles work can be made several different shapes and are often pierces full of holes where Sunday only does this on certain pieces of work.

Both artists pieces are very organic and consist of joined components otherwise known as s composite piece and are often pierced to add texture. They are also often rounded as they are inspired by natural forms which are often rounded in themselves. Both artistsuse a similar colour scheme in some of their works, these will be very organic colours such as reds, browns and greys similar to the colours of coral.

I have been inspired by both artists to create my own ceramic pieces exploring texture and the effect of glazes based on natural forms like Pamela Sunday and Gabrielle Baecille. I could use a similar technique to joins pieces together to eventually create a ceramic composite peace using a similar glaze and texture technique.