Dowr Hwelven - Water Channel

The carved rim of this beech bowl follows the flowing paths left by early tin streaming on the moors. Bronze Age miners once diverted small rivers and seasonal runnels across open ground, letting the water cut shallow channels as it washed over beds of surface ore. The lines here echo those shifting tracks, each one a mark of water guided by hand and land.

The blue green finish settles into these carved channels, catching light much like wet stone on the moor. Set into the rim is a copper plate patinated with sea water, its changes of colour suggesting both the metal sought by those early miners and the long reach of the coast that shaped their work.

Inside, the beech carries its own patterning with warm, natural movement. The form holds a steady presence, with the carved rim giving the bowl a sense of landscape shaped over time. This piece keeps a thread back to the moors, to ancient workings and to the way water once revealed the metal lying just beneath the surface.

25cm x 8cm