Slave (1)

Stoneware
16 x 10 x 20 cm

Coffe Pot

Stoneware
H: 31 cm Dia (max): 18

Mask (Selfportrait)

Stoneware
Glazes and underglazes
27 cm x 30 cm x 12 cm

Raku mask 2

Paperclay
Raku firing, glazes and underglazes
20 cm x 27 cm x 8 cm

Raku mask 1

Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
25 cm x 30 cm x 6 cm

Gaivota (Seagull)


Paperclay
Raku firing
25cm x 17cm x 19cm




Rebuilding the Ark

Paperclay
Raku firing
34 cm x 23 cm x 18 cm

Torso # 7

Stoneware
Glazes, slips, oxides
H: 45 cm L: 29 cm D: 15 cm

Large vessel with lizard

Stoneware
Glazes and oxides
H: 30 Dia: 25

Plates & Drawings











Earthenware
Glazes & underglazes
26.5 x 26.5 x 4
(to be continued)




4 Torsos











Stoneware
Glazes, slips, oxides
H: 45 cm L: 29 cm D: 15 cm





2 Bottles

Stoneware
Volcanic slip and glazes
H: 34cm Dia: 22 cm

Stoneware
Volcanic slip and glazes
H: 24 cm Dia: 16 cm

3 Torsos




Stoneware
Glazes, slips, oxides
H: 45 cm L: 29 cm D: 15 cm

2 Blue bowls

Stoneware
(glazes and slips)
dia 15 cm x height 6.5 cm


Details:


2 Plates




Stoneware


26 cm x 26 cm

3 neck bottle

Paperclay
H: 30 Dia: 16 (max.)

Cubes (composition #1 & #2)



Stoneware
H: 15 cm L: 21 cm D: 14 cm (aprox.)

Double Walled Vessel







(detail)





Stoneware

Slips and "volcanic" glazes

H: 10 cm Dia: 23 cm





Boat in a Cage

Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
H: 14 cm L: 31 cm D: 12 cm

Three Little Pigs (The Bankers)

Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
Max H: 30 cm Dia: 10 cm

"Via Láctea" - A Partial View of the Milky Way














Casting Slip (Stoneware and Paper Pulp)
Moulded and Distorted Ceramic Milk Bottles
Various glazes, underglazes and firing temperatures/techniques

Details from the Milky Way

































Stool # 2






Grogged stoneware and casting slip with paper pulp
Decoration with glazes, engobe and gold luster
H: 55 cm L: 30 cm D: 32 cm

Lone Sailor





Stoneware paperclay
Raku firing and underglazes
L: 22 cm H: 16 cm D: 12 cm

Five Heads (Family # 2)


Stoneware, handbuild
"Volcanic" slips and glazes
Dimensions (aprox. L-D-H) 35 cm x 40 cm x 30 cm

Three heads (Family # 1)


Stoneware, handbuild
Decoration with engobes
Dimensions (aprox. L-D-H) 35 cm x 35 cm x 30 cm

Large Plate - Louise´s Eye

Earthenware
Slips and underglazes under transparent glaze
H: 5.5 cm L: 42 cm D: 36 cm

Raku Bowl

Paperclay
Raku firing
H: 7 cm L: 30 cm D: 12.5

P 6 - 12 (Self-destruction)

Paperclay
Raku firing
H: 26 cm L: 24 cm D: 20 cm

The Stool of Dreams

Stoneware and casting slip with paper pulp
H: 55 cm L: 30 cm

House Boat



Paperclay

Raku firing and underglazes
H: 17 cm L: 21 cm D: 8 cm

Bottle


Paperclay
Raku firing
H: 22 cm Dia: 16 cm

Raku Bowls and Plates

Plate
Paperclay, underglazes
Raku firing
20 x 20 x 4 cm
























Bowls
Casting slip with paper pulp
Raku firing
Dia: 16 cm (aprox.) H: 8 cm



Plate
Paperclay
Raku firing
22 x 21 x 4 cm









Via Lactea / Milky Way (A Partial View of the Milky Way - ceramic milk bottles installation - work in progress, to be continued...)

Casting slip and paper pulp
Various glazes and firing temperatures
Life size

P 6 - 12 (The Gate)

Paperclay
Raku firing
H: 25 cm L: 16 cm D: 6 cm

Floating Again (But Still Stormy)

Paperclay and chicken wire
Raku firing
H: 30 cm L: 39 cm L: 13.5 cm

Memory of Barcelona


























Stoneware
H: 19 cm L: 30 cm D: 13 cm
"Volcanic" slips and glazes

Plate (Red Moon)

Stoneware
33 x 25 x 4 cm
Impressed colours and drawing under transparent glazing

Tile



Stoneware

29 x 21 x 0.5 cm

Impressed colours and drawing under transparent glazing


Large pot

Terracota glazes and underglazes
Dia: 40 cm H: 29 cm

Plate with drawing

Terracota
Underglazes and transparent glaze
Dia 28 cm

Plates










Earthenware
Slips and underglazes
42 cm x 36 cm x 6 cm

Pot

Earthenware
Dia: 16 cm

3 stones

Paperclay
Naked raku
H: 25 cm Dia: 18 cm

Gourd (Cabaça)

Paperclay

Raku firing

H: 32 cm Dia: 30 cm

Gravata


Composition


Blue vessel


Paperclay

H: 18 cm Dia: 19 cm

Spherical box


Raku clay
Dia: 13 cm

Bottle

Raku clay
H: 17 cm Dia: 13 cm

Yellow neck bottle

Paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
H: 24 cm Dia: 9 cm

Large raku box

Paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
H: 22 cm Dia: 17 cm

Eagle # 2

Paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
H: 25 cm L: 13.5 cm D: 11 cm

Vase

Stoneware paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
H: 28 cm Dia: 30 cm

Fish

Earthenware paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
H: 25 cm L: 9,5 cm D: 3 cm

Brotherhood box




Stoneware paperclay
Blue slip & raku glazes and firing
H: 10 cm L: 24 cm D: 10 cm

Goblet


Earthenware paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
H: 19 cm L: 18 cm D: 7 cm

Queuing for coffee # 2

Paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
H: 4 cm L: 17 cm D: 12 cm

Box # 8
















Paperclay
Watercolour underglazes
Raku firing
H: 7.5 cm Dia: 5 cm

Box # 7



Paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
Gold leaf application
H: 10.5 cm L: 12 cm D: 6 cm

Box # 6

Paperclay
Raku glazes and (single) firing
H: 15 cm Dia: 8 cm

Box # 5 (HM#5)


Paperclay

Raku glazes and firing
H: 7 cm L: 12.5 cm D: 11 cm

Tusk (HM#3)


Paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
H: 23 cm L: 18.5 cm D: 8 cm

Boat Under the Bridge

Paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
H: 15 cm L: 22 cm D: 21 cm

Small Boat


Paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
H: 12 cm L: 27 cm D: 11 cm

Eagle (HM#2)

Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
H: 1o cm L: 10 cm D: 7 cm

Crocodile [O crocodilo mata-se quando é pequenino...(HM#1)]


A popular saying in Mozambique states that "we must kill the crocodile while he is still young; if you let him grow he goes to the middle of the river and will eat you in the first opportunity"


Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
H: 12 cm L: 18 cm D: 8.5 cm

Box # 4


Paperclay
Raku firing and copper wash

Box # 3


Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
H: 8 cm Dia: 12.5 cm

Box # 2 (HM#4)

Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
H: 18 cm Dia: 15 cm

Box # 1

Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
H: 12.5 cm L: 12 cm D: 12 cm

Probably flying vessel


Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
H: 20.5 cm L: 34 cm D: 10 cm

The Unfinished Ark


Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
H: 20.5 cm L: 24 cm D: 18 cm

Raku plate


Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
22.0 cm x 22.0 cm x 3 cm

Lost in translation - 2 (Hard Rain)


Earthenware
26.5 cm x 26.5 cm x 6 cm

Vessel and moon

Paperclay
Raku firing and glazes
H: 13 cm L: 20 cm D: 18 cm

MEAL SET # 1 - A MEAL FOR THE DEAD ONES


In some areas of my home country, Mozambique, the people honour their ancestors making them offers of food and drink near a chosen tree, normally a baobab tree, that incarnates the spirits of the dead ones.
The food and beverages are deposited at the base of these magnificent trees in ceramic vessels as those used for storing, cooking, drinking and eating among the living ones, in their day to day normal lives.

Bottle
Raku clay and glazes
H: 20 cm Dia: 17 cm
Plate
Crank clay, raku glazes
H: 3 cm Dia: 17 cm
Bowl
Crank clay, raku glazes
H: 5,5 cm Dia: 10 cm
Goblet
Crank clay, raku glazes
H: 10 cm Dia max: 10 cm

MEAL SET # 2 - THE CHARITY MEAL











“According to tradition, a well-to-do family always put a dish aside for poor people”

Amadou Hampâté Bâ cited by Meyer, Laure in “Art and Craft in Africa – Everyday Life, Ritual, Court Art”, Terrail, 1994, p.39,41

Bottle for palm wine
Stoneware clay and glazes
H: 29 cm Dia: 17 cm
2 Bowls for sauces
Stoneware clay and glazes
H: 7 cm Dia: 17 cm
Plate for n´sima (polenta) or tubers
Stoneware clay and glazes
H: 3 cm Dia: 27 cm




MEAL SET # 3 - LUNCH IN A BOX (the take away meal set)




A symbolic meal set (not for functional utilization), two bowls and a plate - together forming a lunch box. (Inspired by the take away style food)

Paper clay
Raku firing and glazes
Assembled box H: 15 cm L: 20 cm D: 20 cm





DEAD'S BOTTLE

Raku clay and glazes
H: 28.5 cm Dia: 17 cm

Queuing for coffee # 1

Handbuild
Earthenwareclay and glazes
H: 5 cm Dia (max): 10 cm

B & B Waiting for Trial

Hand build
Stoneware clay and glazes
H: 11 cm L: 16 cm D: 16 cm

Difficult departure

Paperclay
Raku glazes and firing
L: 25 cm H: 12.5 cm D: 12 cm

Doublebasses

Paperclay
H: 24 cm D: 11 cm L: 8 cm


Raku clay
H: 24 cm D: 11 cm L: 9cm






3 plates




Stoneware
Dia: 24.2 cm H: 1.1 cm

House with sea shells


raku clay
raku glazes and firing
golden leaf applications
H: 27 L: 17 D: 15

Figure 3







raku clay
hand build
raku glazes and firing
H: 23 x L: 10.5 x D: 6



Figure 2




crank
hand built
raku glazes & firing
H: 23 x L: 9 x D:5

Figure 1




stoneware
hand build
manganese oxide and stoneware glazes
H: 37 x L: 16 x D: 12

Short Story (introduction)


Kora
rakuclay
raku fire
H 34 x L 30 x D 19



Six Strings For Six Evocations


or


the kora tells a story about confinement and freedom

Short Story # 1


Trap
paperclay
raku fire
H 25 x L 20 x D 11

Short Story # 2


Door
cranked stoneware
raku fire
H 26 x L 21 x D 1

Short Story # 3


Wound
paperclay
raku fire
H 20 x L 30 x D 19

Short Story # 4

Healing
paperclay
raku fire
H 30 x L 16 x D 23

Short Story # 5

Bougainvillea village
paperclay
raku fire
H 29 x L 27 x D 14

Short Story # 6

White chair
paperclay
raku fire
H 17 x L 15 x D 15
9 improvisations upon the NAZCA
"two spout and bridge" vessel

Improvisation 1



BIRD

EARTHENWARE
HAND BUILD
SLIPS AND UNDERGLAZES
dia: 40 cm height: 37 cm



Improvisation 2


LIZZARD


WHITE EARTHENWARE PAPERCLAY
HAND BUILD
RAKU FIRE AND GLAZES
dia: 16 cm, height: 15 cm

Improvisation 3



BOTTLE WITH SNAKES

WHITE EARTHENWARE PAPERCLAY
HAND BUILD
RAKU FIRE AND GLAZES
L: 13 cm, H: 26 cm, D: 6.5 cm


Improvisation 4


SQUARE BOTTLE

STONEWARE
HAND BUILD AND EXTRUDED
STONEWARE GLAZES
L: 16 cm, H: 33 cm, D: 12 cm



Improvisation 5






HELMET TORTOISESHELL


WHITE EARTHENWARE PAPERCLAY
HAND BUID
RAKU FIRE AND GLAZES
dia: 23 cm height: 23 cm

Improvisation 6


TREE

RAKU CLAY (SALMON)
HAND BUILD
RAKU FIRE AND GLAZES
dia: 23 cm height: 23 cm


Improvisation 7


SPECTACLES

RAKU CLAY (SALMON)
HAND BUILD AND PLASTER MOULD
RAKU FIRE AND GLAZES
L: 24 cm, H: 31 cm, D: 9 cm

Improvisation 8




TWIN BIRDS (TWIN TOWERS)

STONEWARE
HAND BUILD
STONEWARE GLAZES (“ENGOBES” SW69)
L: 21 cm, H: 22 cm, D: 8 cm

Improvisation 9

Tea pot

STONEWARE
HAND BUILD
STONEWARE GLAZES
L: 26 cm, H: 16 cm, D: 13 cm

Vessel 2


PAPERCLAY
HAND BUILD
RAKU FIRING
RAKU GLAZES (WITH GOLD LEAF APPLICATION)
dia: 17 cm height: 21 cm

Torso




PAPERCLAY
HAND AND MOULD BUILD, ASSEMBLED WITH COPPER WIRE
RAKU FIRING AND GLAZES
L: 29 cm H: 49 cm D: 14 cm

Vessel 1





STONEWARE
HAND BUILD, MOULDED AND EXTRUDED
STONEWARE GLAZES
Dia: 14 cm, H: 15 cm

Bottle






STONEWARE
HAND BUILD, MOULDED AND EXTRUDED
STONEWARE GLAZES
L: 20 cm, H: 26 cm, D: 8 cm




Máscara - Fungo


Máscara - O dente caíu em Nampula


Máscara - O espanto dos acepipes


Máscara - OH!


Máscaras OEOD (1 e 2)




Busto


Torsos
















Vaso


Travessas




Jarra da cabeça


2 azulejos


Máscara com véu

"Burka"


Máscara da cobra


Frigideira com galo


IBO


Cachimbo e lagartixa


4 azulejos


2 jarras




3 malgas







Máscaras Marracuene





















Máscara do lado de lá (outra vez!)


Máscara do lado de lá


Máscara - Torso




Máscara colorida


Máscara da boca fechada


Máscara do caixote do lixo


Máscara do crocodilo


Máscara do dente


Máscara dupla







Molheira


3 potes


Ventoinha

Lagarto

Pneu

Babalaza




Utilitários


Travessa do galo + 2 pratos pequenos


Quebra-luz com pregos

Travessa pequena

Saladeira

Prato com vírus vermelho

Prato com marcas

Xiguvias





Lidded jars




3 teapots











Lamp




Kora & Saxophone




Lost in translation 1 - um prego e uma banheira (nail and bathtube)

Stoneware, hand build
Underglazes and transparent hearthenware glaze
H: 9 Dia: 15

Cão a sorrir práscada (Dog smiling to the ladder)





stoneware
underglazes and transparent hearthenware glaze
H 31 x L 9 x D 9