Yellow Pottery Bowl ‘Yellow and White Monarch’ by Fiona Mazza

Eight delightful yellow and white wings of the monarch butterfly combine to create this gorgeous yellow pottery bowl. Fiona Mazza’s inspiration for this range comes from nature, and these butterflies are a glorious example of the beauty of the natural world that we live in. Unfortunately, man’s impact on nature continues to destroy and damage, and Fiona uses her artistry to highlight these struggles.

This splendid yellow pottery bowl will look beautiful on any shelf or mantlepiece and deserves pride of place.

Please note that the image is an example of the ones in this series. Each piece is handbuilt to order and not to a set pattern of arrangement of the wings and is therefore completely unique.  The dimensions will vary slightly from those stated.

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N.B. The images shown are an example of the ones in the series. Each piece is handmade and therefore there will be small variations in colour, shape and pattern. Each one is completely unique and signed by the artist.

Yellow Pottery Bowl Artist

Fiona Mazza artist has been a maker of unusual ceramics for 18 years exhibiting in numerous shows around the country. She also runs her own studio and workshops in Pateley Bridge and holds a first-class Honors Degree in Visual Arts.

The core of her work is based on nature, in particular, the wonderful world of butterflies. This body of work highlights the struggles of nature and man’s impact upon it. The Monarch butterfly is used in this work to represent nature and the beauty of form and colour. The impact of man is seen in the use of bolts to control and damage. The monarch migrates travelling long distances, clustering together to create awe-inspiring patterns. Man’s use of pesticides on the milkweed which the Monarch feed on is reducing their numbers and is in danger of destroying this wonder of the world.

Fiona has combined the love of nature and the battles it takes to survive, demonstrating strength, versus fragility, through the natural clay state. These pieces inspired by the wonderful world of butterflies are hand-built or slip-cast and hand-carved. Each piece is constructed from separate wings, joining them together in free form. Bisque fired then hand decorated and fired again to 1220 degrees.