A Burnished Jade Green Bottle Vase by Peter Hayes c.1984
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Origin: English
Period: Mid/Late 20thC
Provenance: Unknown
Date: c.1984
Height: 11”
Width: 6.75”
Depth: 3” (all approximate & at extremities)
The richly textured jade green body with a smooth, tactile surface of compressed form with slightly tapering sides and rounded shoulders, rising to form a miniature circular aperture to centre, with a Japanese seal for Peter Hayes dating to circa 1984, and surviving in superb order.
In good condition, there are no flaws to note, with no chips or cracks.
Hayes was born in Birmingham, England, where, aged 12, he was selected to attend the Moseley School of Art . In 1961 he left to study at the Birmingham College of Art before travelling extensively in Africa. Over the course of several years, he worked as a ceramic artist with tribes and village potters who inspired him with the exquisite work they produced using very limited technology and tools. Moving on to India, Nepal, Japan, Korea and New Mexico, he found similar skills and adopted the techniques he learned. In 1982, Hayes came home and built a studio in a disused toll house on Cleveland Bridge, Bath. His work now builds on the techniques and methods he learned during his travels to create ceramic art that is often inspired by memories of landscapes he has seen.
The distinctive appearance of Peter Hayes' ceramics comes from the techniques like Raku firing to which he subjects them, but also from the fact that he submerges them in the flowing river beside his studio, or sends them to Cornwall to be washed in the sea for months at a time. The water washes minerals such as copper and metal oxides into the basic white clay with which Hayes works, creating a characteristic green-blue "blush" in his sculptures along with random elements that make every piece unique. The effect is to create objects that many feel look ancient and perhaps even a little alien. Hayes' work is generally finished by waxing and polishing.I have always been interested in - why and how 'things' are made of clay. One of the major introductions I had to ceramics was digging Neolithic iron age and roman samien shards on archaeological digs somewhere in Wales while trying to survive as an art student in Birmingham. I am naturally drawn to shapes of artefacts and objects from other cultures and other times, but that remain timeless.
"Erosion and change through time and nature are recorded in a piece. My main aim in my work is not to compete with nature; but for the work to evolve within the environment. The minerals, like iron and copper, that I introduce into the 'Raku' ceramic surface have their own affect on the clay during the time they are submerged in the river or the sea. This erosion process continues with sanding so that the texture and cracks do not interrupt the surface but become an organic, integral part of the patina. Each individual piece takes on its own developing surface; its own history and its own aesthetic. I am merely the maker.
An email that Peter was kind enough to send us stated; “It is likely to be 1984 as I had just returned from Japan and the seal on the bottom is a Japanese seal that I used for a very short time and on only a limited amount of work. The piece is not actually Raku fired but is has been burnished”.
This is an early example of its type, in a wonderful colour and with a rare character seal, it is a beautiful tactile delight.
Period: Mid/Late 20thC
Provenance: Unknown
Date: c.1984
Height: 11”
Width: 6.75”
Depth: 3” (all approximate & at extremities)
The richly textured jade green body with a smooth, tactile surface of compressed form with slightly tapering sides and rounded shoulders, rising to form a miniature circular aperture to centre, with a Japanese seal for Peter Hayes dating to circa 1984, and surviving in superb order.
In good condition, there are no flaws to note, with no chips or cracks.
Hayes was born in Birmingham, England, where, aged 12, he was selected to attend the Moseley School of Art . In 1961 he left to study at the Birmingham College of Art before travelling extensively in Africa. Over the course of several years, he worked as a ceramic artist with tribes and village potters who inspired him with the exquisite work they produced using very limited technology and tools. Moving on to India, Nepal, Japan, Korea and New Mexico, he found similar skills and adopted the techniques he learned. In 1982, Hayes came home and built a studio in a disused toll house on Cleveland Bridge, Bath. His work now builds on the techniques and methods he learned during his travels to create ceramic art that is often inspired by memories of landscapes he has seen.
The distinctive appearance of Peter Hayes' ceramics comes from the techniques like Raku firing to which he subjects them, but also from the fact that he submerges them in the flowing river beside his studio, or sends them to Cornwall to be washed in the sea for months at a time. The water washes minerals such as copper and metal oxides into the basic white clay with which Hayes works, creating a characteristic green-blue "blush" in his sculptures along with random elements that make every piece unique. The effect is to create objects that many feel look ancient and perhaps even a little alien. Hayes' work is generally finished by waxing and polishing.I have always been interested in - why and how 'things' are made of clay. One of the major introductions I had to ceramics was digging Neolithic iron age and roman samien shards on archaeological digs somewhere in Wales while trying to survive as an art student in Birmingham. I am naturally drawn to shapes of artefacts and objects from other cultures and other times, but that remain timeless.
"Erosion and change through time and nature are recorded in a piece. My main aim in my work is not to compete with nature; but for the work to evolve within the environment. The minerals, like iron and copper, that I introduce into the 'Raku' ceramic surface have their own affect on the clay during the time they are submerged in the river or the sea. This erosion process continues with sanding so that the texture and cracks do not interrupt the surface but become an organic, integral part of the patina. Each individual piece takes on its own developing surface; its own history and its own aesthetic. I am merely the maker.
An email that Peter was kind enough to send us stated; “It is likely to be 1984 as I had just returned from Japan and the seal on the bottom is a Japanese seal that I used for a very short time and on only a limited amount of work. The piece is not actually Raku fired but is has been burnished”.
This is an early example of its type, in a wonderful colour and with a rare character seal, it is a beautiful tactile delight.
