Dowr Loden - Lode Beneath the Water

The rim of this beech bowl is carved with a pattern that follows the movement of water, the kind of shifting surface seen where tide and rock meet in sheltered coves. Each cut holds a small change of direction, a ripple caught in wood, with the blue-green finish drawing the eye along the flow as if tracing the tide’s slow return.

Set into the rim is a copper plate, patinated with sea water so it carries the mark of salt and time. Its presence hints at the lodes once driven beneath the cliffs, where workings followed seams of metal out toward the deep. The copper darkens and brightens in places, like something lifted from a mine floor or found after years in the shallows.

Inside, the beech shows a natural sweep of grain shaped by the tree’s own history. The form holds a quiet sense of depth, as though shaped by both land and water. This piece carries a thread back to Cornwall’s coast, its mining past and the shifting stories that lie beneath the waves.

30cm x 9cm

Beech wood, milk paint, hemp oil, copper, sea water