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Lisa Stevens
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Sculptor of ridiculously difficult to package porcelain artwork. You’ll see coral, skulls, nudibranchs, moons, mushrooms, lichen and comets, all with complicated textures, some with rainbow colours. Bristol, UK

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DENIZ-a Turkish name, meaning “sea”. More commonly a male name, but can be for anyone.

#sculpture
#clay #ceramic #texture #seaurchin #skull #porcelain #paperclay #coralreef #claymask
A coral-like porcelain skull mask. Highly textured and sculptural, the colours are bright and fresh, with turquoise, orange, lime green and white. The skull has white wavy fins radiating across the forehead, with lime green coral honeycomb, orange anemones, electric blue glass-filled craters and a background of turquoise sponge. The mask is displayed at an angle.
July 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Sorry, I’ve been on holiday and got out of the routine of posting. Here are the latest pieces out of the kiln!

#ceramic #porcelain #clay #sculpture #coral #coralreef #scarab #skull
A chaotic jumble of coral-like ceramic sculptures in a crate, just out of the kiln. The colours are bright, with a lot of orange, green and turquoise, and the white of unglazed porcelain. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including waves, fans, spirals, craters, brain coral, anemones and ridges. There is a predominantly blue, coral skull mask, centrally amongst the pieces. Also, slightly out of place, a small green acorn and two scarab beetles, one a minty green, the other bright orange.
July 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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PEARL-a self-explanatory ocean name. Just a touch of ash glaze on this one. The qualities of the fired, unglazed porcelain are so lovely, almost like alabaster.

#sculpture #MarineLife
#clay #ceramic #texture #seaurchin #skull #porcelain #coralreef #claymask
A white skull mask, made of porcelain, displayed at an angle. The skull is covered in coral-like textures, with craters, petals and sponge-like pits. She also has a number of small finger-like protrusions, sticking out randomly, with a small group on the right hand cheekbone. She has some small, feathered, fan-like pieces on the forehead and one on the left cheek. The only colour is in glassy aqua craters, scattered mainly across the cheekbones. The textures are delicate and lace-like.
July 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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And another. This one is named Laccadive Sea.

In my hand this time, to give a better idea of scale. My pieces are small, but highly detailed.

#MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture #colourful
A teardrop-shaped porcelain sculpture, held in an outstretched hand. The shape is colourful and highly textured with clusters of large yellow and orange anemone-like craters. The rest of the space is taken up with some large orange rosettes, with turquoise glass centres and smaller fuchsia pink craters, all on a turquoise pitted background.
July 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Another of the 100 teardrop-shaped wall sculptures, all based on different areas of sea. This one is named Sea of Japan.

Still some more to glaze. I hope to display them all together at some point.

#MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture #colourful
A teardrop-shaped coral-like ceramic sculpture. It has three large, feathered, orange fans with lime green centres and to the top right, jutting out along the side, are five red, forked tongue-shaped branches. The body of the piece, mostly disguised by the sculptural elements, is turquoise sponge with a scattering of aqua glassy craters…these also make their way onto the centres of the fans. The piece looks like a coral outcrop in vibrant colours.
July 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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One of 100 teardrop-shaped wall sculptures, all based on different areas of sea. This one is named Ningaloo Coast.

Still some more to glaze. I hope to display them all together at some point.

#MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture #colourful
A teardrop shaped porcelain wall sculpture, encrusted with orange and turquoise brain coral through the main portion. The two sides have a red-orange sponge texture with emerald green craters and there is a row of short spikes along the left-hand side. It’s a riot of colour and texture
July 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Newton, Keeper of the Boxes.

#cat #blackcat #hotcat
A small, sleek black cat laying on her side, semi-curled, on some flat-packed boxes on a beige carpet. Luckily, the carpet doesn’t look too dirty.
June 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Another batch out of the kiln.

I always use commercial underglazes and glazes and I’m happy to let you know the names of them…just ask!

#porcelain #ceramic #colorful #colourful #rainbow #joyous #coralreef #coral
A collection of coral-like ceramic sculptures just out of the kiln. The colours are bright, with a lot of orange, green and turquoise, along with some bright white of the unglazed porcelain. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including spikes, petals, waves, fans, branches, craters, brain coral, anemones and ridges. To the bottom left, there is a predominantly white coral skull mask, with fans and spikes. To the right of it, a spiral shape with short spikes. Above the mask is a small coral comet in green and white. As the pieces are all stacked together in a box, it’s sometimes hard to see the individual pieces, it reads as a cacophony of forms, textures and colours-quite chaotic!
June 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Thanks ☺️ Most pieces would look good sitting on a shelf. I have some collectors who never mount them on the wall, but have a small collection along with other sculptures and natural elements like shells and geological specimens.
June 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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We had sun last week!

Unglazed porcelain can glow with strong sunlight behind it if it’s thin enough.

EUPHEME- a moon of Jupiter

Available (amongst others) on my website lisaseaurchin.co.uk from 5pm BST this afternoon.

#sculpture
#porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture
A small porcelain sculpture, held up to the sun with a blue sky behind it. The sculpture is white, with lots of texture and the porcelain glows where its thinnest, notably through the feather texture on the organically shaped fans, and through some little starburst craters on the main body of the piece. There are also some short spikes, randomly placed, but these are too solid to let the light through.
June 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Again, I need to get myself motivated, so I’ll announce a shop update now, then I’ll have to stick to it! So, new pieces on my website 5pm BST (GMT+1) on Tuesday 24th July. (lisaseaurchin.co.uk or link in bio.)

#sculpture
#porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture #seaurchin #coral
A coral-like ceramic sculpture with glowing colours. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including vivid yellow spikes and lime green fans with orange and red petals towards the base and more lime green in the centre. The main body of the piece has a white sponge base with peach coloured craters and turquoise starbursts. The piece is asymmetric with the yellow spikes emerging from between the fans in the centre and towards the bottom left.
June 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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A Sun, of sorts.

#ocean #coral #ceramic #colorpop #sculpture #yellow #sun #porcelain #MarineArt
A porcelain wall sculpture. It has a central round section with a white sponge-like texture. There are some peachy ridged craters and tiny yellow spots. There are three layers of vivid yellow wavy tentacles radiating from the main piece, to form a sun-like ocean creature. There’s one large set like sun rays, a smaller set closer to the centre and six short spikes in the centre.
June 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Dropped off in #Nailsea #NorthSomerset this afternoon.
A ceramic toadstool, based on a shaggy ink cap, leaning against the bottom of a carved wooden sculpture. The bottom of the sculpture shows a swimming otter. Unseen, further up the sculpture, are many other carved wild animals.
June 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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First mushroom out of the mould, I wasn’t sure if I’d have it fired in time for tomorrow’s #gameofshrooms created by @attayumfactory on Insta. Not sure where I’ll hide it yet. South Bristol or North Somerset somewhere!

#ceramic #toadstool #mushroom #sculpture #shaggyinkcap #artdrop #arthunt
A ceramic toadstool sculpture, held in an outstretched hand. It’s 3D, but flat on the back, so it can be hung on the wall. It’s based on a shaggy ink cap, so it’s a tall, quite narrow, mushroom, with a long stalk. It has a shaggy texture in cream and brown and the black gills curl up slightly at the edge.
June 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A crate of newly-fired pieces out of the kiln. I need to take some individual photos.

#MarineLife #ceramic #porcelain #sculpture #coral #reef #art
A collection of coral-like ceramic sculptures just out of the kiln. The colours are very bright, with a lot of orange, green, red, turquoise and yellow, with many textural and sculptural motifs, including spikes, waves, fans, branches, craters, brain coral, anemones and ridges. The piece that takes centre-stage is a round sun-like piece, with vivid yellow tentacles radiating from a central area of white sponge and peach-coloured craters. There are also a few scarab beetle sculptures.
June 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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DENIZ-a Turkish name, meaning “sea”. More commonly a male name, but can be for anyone.

#sculpture
#clay #ceramic #texture #seaurchin #claylove #contemporaryclay #instapottery #skull #porcelain #paperclay #coralreef #claymask
A coral-like ceramic skull mask sculpture, currently unfired. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including sunburst wavy fins on the forehead, craters, anemones, ridged concentric circles and sponge. It is held in an outstretched hand wearing a pink watch.
June 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Pieces in the kiln, slowly heating up. It usually takes around 24hours to reach temperature and another 24hours to cool down, before I can see the results! They’ll be brighter once fired.

There are another two shelves.

#MarineLife #coral #sculpture #porcelain #art #reef #ceramic
The octagonal interior of a small, top-loading kiln with a collection of coral-like ceramic sculptures in. Currently the colours are very pastel, with a lot of orange, green, baby blue and yellow, but they’ll be brighter once fired. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including spikes, waves, fans, branches, craters, brain coral, anemones and ridges.
June 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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IRAS- Coral Comet

Comets are usually named after whomever discovered them, but this one is named after IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Telescope.) It was discovered in photos taken by the telescope.

#sculpture
#porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture #SciArt #coralcomet
A coral-like ceramic comet sculpture which is currently unfired clay. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including rosette craters, tiny flowers and even smaller pits. The tail of the comet is made of flame-like or claw-like streamers.
June 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Another ring-shaped wall sculpture, named after an impact crater.

This one is MIZARAI, named after a buried impact crater in Druskininkai, in Lithuania. It is estimated to be 500 million to 570 million years old and was found during an international seismic survey.

#ceramic #porcelain #texture
A doughnut-shaped ceramic sculpture, still in its unfired state. There are a number of petal-like fans, pinched out of the main body, opening up like a chrysanthemum. the doughnut-shaped body of the piece has a sponge pattern and large round divots. My hand is in the photo, which shows the piece is roughly the size of a dinner plate.
May 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I’ve started another series. I made a ring-shaped former so I thought I’d name these pieces after impact craters.

This is AOROUNGA, named after an eroded impact crater in Chad, in the Sahara Desert. It is estimated to be less than 345 million years old.

#ceramic #porcelain #texture
A doughnut-shaped ceramic sculpture, still in its unfired state. There are a number of fin-like structures, pinched out of the main body, crossing the piece in one direction (in this image, oriented diagonally.) The high points of the fins are smooth, with the lower areas, the doughnut-shaped piece itself, has patterns of dots in different sizes, some as tiny target motifs, running in lines alongside the fins.
May 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Another public art piece, for an art trail in Løkken, Denmark. I’d love to do the trail in person one day!

(Not my photo-taken by Løkken Kunststi)

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#arttrail #denmark #sculpture #ceramic
A ceramic sculpture on a granite plinth. The sculpture depicts a pair of cupped hands, filled with natural textures…a crab, sea anemone, seaweed, limpet and coral. Clover, celandines, a beetle, blackberries and a small tortoiseshell butterfly. Only the butterfly is in full colour, and looks as if it could be a real one, alighting on the sculpture. The rest is the natural grey of the clay with shadows and highlights to bring out the texture. There are also words stamped into the clay: Opdage, discover, Vokse, grow, Udforske, explore, Beskytte, protect. The art installation is in the foreground, and behind you can see it’s located on a grassy hill, with terracotta rooftops in the town below. The sky is blue.
May 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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SERAPHIM

First time using this former, and it’s not what o expected. I don’t think I’ll add much colour to this, but I won’t leave it completely unglazed.

I prefer it horizontally oriented, but I’ll add a number of lugs for other options.

#sculpture
#porcelain #clay #ceramic #coral #MarineLife
Work in progress. An unglazed ceramic sculpture with a coral theme, like some fancy sea worm diva. It is highly textured, with many feathered fans, jutting out at different angles. The sausage-like body of the piece, highly disguised by the fans, has some small, Sun-like motifs in clusters, with ripples surrounding them. It is long narrow and can be hung on the wall.
May 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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PEARL- a self-explanatory ocean name. I’m going to leave her white.

#scull #MarineLife #clay
#ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture
A white skull mask, made of clay, held in an outstretched hand. Although unfired at this stage, the piece will remain white and unglazed, to suit the name Pearl. The skull is covered in coral-like textures, with craters, petals and sponge-like pits. She also has a number of small finger-like protrusions, sticking out randomly, with a small group on the right hand cheekbone. She has some small, feathered, fan-like pieces on the forehead and one on the left cheek. The textures are delicate and lace-like.
May 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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PANDORA- a moon of Saturn

Named after the first human woman in Greek Mythology, who opened the jar and let evil into the world.

#sculpture
#porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture #paperclay #coralmoon
A coral-like ceramic sculpture in vibrant reds and oranges.There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, including short fingers and waves standing proud of the hemispherical base, which has small, bright blue craters and lime, red and blue anemones.
May 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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A mini coral comet- TABUR

These pieces are all named after real comets, which in turn, are usually named after whomever discovered them.

#sculpture
#porcelain #clay #ceramic #texture #contemporaryclay #comet #coralcomet #SciArt
A mini coral comet sculpture, currently raw, unfired clay. There are short, claw-like flames forming the tail and the body has a cluster of rosette-like craters, with gaps filled with tiny craters. The main surface has a sponge texture.
May 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM