Welcome To Mudlark Aotearoa

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Creative Inspiration: Mudlark Aotearoa is the creative inspiration of Victoria Grouden. Victoria comes from a long line of artists and crafters and is never long without the urge to make something. She has worked with leadlight glass, glass and ceramic mosaic, fabrics, leather, sterling silver and ceramics. She combines a love of the natural world with a love of old things, and her ceramic pieces are hugely inspired by what she finds and documents in her other life as a consultant archaeologist. Materials and Techniques: The Mudlark Aotearoa collection includes ceramic jewellery and ceramic homewares. These are decorated with a variety of techniques including: press moulding, slip trailing, mocha diffusion, clay marbling and glazing. Textures and surface patterns are created using hand-made clay press moulds as well as hand-made and vintage slip casting moulds. Ceramic pieces are made from a range of local and imported clays (stoneware, porcelain, black and white earthenware) and from hand-made porcelain casting slip.