Garthvas Gwlas - Hedge Growth

This large beech bowl carries a rim of carved, leaflike forms that feel close to the plants that edge their way onto coast paths and lane sides. The pattern follows the line of a hedge where stems and leaves lean into the light, each mark rising and folding like growth held low by wind. It has the sense of a boundary that is always being reclaimed by what grows along it.

The blue green finish gathers in the carving and settles over the outer curve, giving the leafy band the depth of foliage seen against sea air. There is no copper plate here. Instead, the form itself carries the character of the piece. The bowl has warped gently as it has dried, so the rim rises and falls in a natural sweep, more like something shaped by time and weather than held to a perfect circle.

Inside, the beech shows varied grain and colour, answering the movement of the rim. The whole vessel feels rooted in the hedges and paths of Cornwall, where stone boundaries and plant growth meet and where the edges of the land are softened by what grows over them.

32cm x 9cm

Beech wood, milk paint, hemp oil