Old Thumbs stoneware 045

Product description

Paper clay, stoneware fired
oxides, matt glaze. 

A drawing of my hands when kneeling on the sand. A child’s hand prints in the snow.I’m asked what is my favourite tool: my hands, of course. I hear Robert Macfarlane talking about prehistoric hand prints in a French cave. My hands, once rather elegant, becoming distorted by arthritis.I make a series of drawing round my hands on clay – a record of their ageing.