Menydh Nans - Sacred Hill and Hollow

This bowl stands as the centrepiece of the collection. The carved rim follows the rising forms of standing stones, each arching shape echoing the markers set into Cornwall’s ancient ground. The pattern carries the sense of portals to earlier days, the openings found among circles, rows and solitary uprights scattered across the moors. These repeated forms hold a slow rhythm, as though each one keeps a fragment of the stories bound into those places.

The blue green finish gathers in the recessed carving and lifts along the outer edges, giving the line of stones the depth of silhouettes seen against shifting sky. Set into the rim is a copper plate patinated with sea water, its surface shaped by salt and time. It suggests the weathered fragments sometimes found near sacred sites, pieces left by hands whose histories are now part of the land.

Inside, the beech shows its full sweep of grain, warm and open in contrast to the sculpted exterior. At thirty five centimetres, the vessel carries a strong presence, its wide form giving space for the standing stone motif to run its full circumference. The piece holds a connection to Cornwall’s ancient places, to the thresholds and gatherings that shaped its earliest landscapes.

35cm x 10cm

Beech wood, milk paint, hemp oil, copper, seawater