Lorna Graves

I bought these from the ceramic sculptor Lorna Graves many years ago. What I loved was the very strong sense of significance they have, that there is much more than the physical presence. The word I have always associated with them is "talismanic", so when Graves died recently I was not surprised to read the following in Judith Palmer's obituary:

"Graves was fiercely secretive about firing her work, finding it an intense, emotional and private process. Her studio assistants always suspected that the pyre of leaves and wood-shavings traditionally burnt in Raku was also being stoked with less conventional combustible materials such as favourite found objects and personal artefacts, which would imbue the sculptures with almost talismanic significance."