Rachel Wood uses stoneware clay, vanadium pentoxide slip, and barium carbonate glaze. The works are fired in an electric kiln to 1220°C.
The colour, texture and energy of her forms are a metaphor for how she interprets the landscape and world around her. The impulsive desire we all have to want to touch, and the inherent emotional need to be touched, underpin the technical, creative and emotional foundations of her work. Rachel’s personal intuitive touch is an integral trait in all her work – a dent in the soft clay, a tear, rip, and a finger or handprint in the glaze.
