TAN

TAN
Fire
Cornish beech
34 × 13 cm
Approximately 13⅜ × 5⅛ inches
Turned from beech that I sourced in Cornwall following Storm Goretti.
Tan was shaped while the wood was still green, with a smoothly turned exterior and an interior carved by hand. The repeated tool marks travel around the bowl and draw attention to the changing grain within.
Natural mineralisation runs through the beech, creating the dark, flame-like markings from which the term “flamed beech” comes. Set against the dark milk-painted exterior, the warm amber wood and smoky markings resemble the remnants of a fire.
As the timber dried, tensions accumulated during the tree’s lifetime were released and the bowl moved gently away from the symmetry of the lathe. Its final form carries something of the ground, weather and landscape in which the tree grew.
Coloured with non-toxic milk paint and finished with cold-pressed raw linseed oil.
One of six unique bowls from Duryoryon – The Survivors.