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...It’s hard to believe she conjured such an atmospheric landscape out of clay alone....
...Shell declined to comment....
...Spray-painted metal body parts — elephantine yellow ear, orange legs shooting into a handstand — emerge from oozing clay bases in Teresa Solar Abboud’s cartoonish Tunnel Boring Machine series, “hybrids between...
...Dries Van Noten silk-organza embellished bralette, £511, mytheresa.com Chanel wood-pearl and strass clutch, POA Soho Home oak Bead table lamp, £250 Klaylife clay-beaded Barrel table lamp pendant, A$828...
...The protagonist is nothing more or less than the title’s description: a seashell roughly an inch high with one googly eye, an animated mouth and trainers made of modelling clay....
...Clay is first pressed into moulds....
...Elevate with beads and shells....
...Devonald Smith, who prefers to work by hand, first makes a model out of clay, which is slicked over with plaster of Paris and finally cast....
...I was face to face with a 90-year-old man, intense eyes staring back at me through a dazzling bandit stripe of white clay....
...Watching potter Paul Mossman at work inspired him to invest in his own wheel and kiln, despite having no experience handling clay....
...Modelled in clay during the pandemic and cast in bronze last year, it depicts an armless female form. The face has flared nostrils and thick closed lips....
...As you walk to the pool from the village car park, fuel slag and winkle shells will crunch beneath your shoes....
...When Sandro Botticelli’s voluptuous Venus drifted to the shores of Cyprus on a scallop shell in the mid-1480s, she epitomised a male interpretation of beauty that persisted for centuries....
...While other studio potters obsessed over building kilns or making their own clay, Rie, nicknamed “the urban potter”, carved her own path, tirelessly making novel work in an electric kiln....
...The rough, matt texture of the clay made it hard to resist....
...The Maize God, one of the central figures in the Maya pantheon, is born, drowned and then reborn from a mountain crevice or a cracked turtle shell....
...And it did take me a while to locate sachets of sugar for my tea — hidden in a coconut shell — on the health-conscious atoll....
...At one point he produces the most delicate of shell necklaces – one belonged to Woolf, the other to Vanessa Bell....
...He has since made waves for Richard Quinn, where he appeared with bleached eyebrows, and Collina Strada, where he had his hair slicked with clay....
...The fibreglass shell was ill suited to the weather in Arizona, the sun causing constant cracks....
...You start with antipasti: stuffed mussels, the tiella of mussels, rice and potatoes cooked in little clay pots, octopus in various forms, little pickled anchovies and bits of swordfish carpaccio....
...The old cottages and pubs, schools and shops, were mostly made of clay and Norfolk clunch, a soft chalky limestone, and eight decades on few traces of them remain....
...They are small crabs caught when their shells are still soft, meaning that they can be deep-fried and eaten whole....
...On Grand Bahama there’s Gold Rock Beach, which opens up for miles and miles at low tide, and Bootle Bay, where I go shell collecting....
...She has built a brutalist oval shell that will be housed under the roof of the Arsenale to evoke both the “unwavering hope” of the Lebanese people and Beirut’s streets, which seem under constant construction...
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