Sarah Walters Blue & White Vase Series

A series of one-of-a-kind stoneware vases, each hand-painted with loose cobalt motifs — irises, grasses, leaves and dragonflies — drifting across a pale, atmospheric ground, some finished with a delicate band of pattern at the rim or foot.

Hand-thrown in white stoneware and reduction-fired in a gas kiln, a method that softens the glaze and draws the cobalt deep into the surface. Sarah mixes her own pigment, inspired by the blue-and-white ceramics of China, and paints each vessel freehand, so no two are alike in shape, scale or brushwork.

Sculptural on their own, and just as lovely holding a single stem, dried grasses or a loose seasonal arrangement — they really come into their own gathered in twos or threes.