A while ago I had access to a laser cutter and made this piece from white cartridge paper, which is great for casting shadows and for photographing through.
Author: Sally Wakelin
Rosemary Wakelin – Pottery
My brother sent me this photograph of a little hand-painted ceramic dish our mother made maybe 50 years ago. She and our father both made several dishes in pottery and both signed them with their common monogrammed initials RW , so I’m not entirely sure whose this is but my gut reaction is that it was my mother. It is a perfect example of hand-decorated studio pottery from the ’50s.
Here are some more – the yellow bowl is one of my favourites.
Creating Cast Shadows
Cast plaster hemispheres with small facets rotated in sequence.
The same cast hemispheres turned over in place, to rest on their facets.
Cast plaster “cakes” rotated in a set sequence around the four points of the compass.
Creating Cast Shadows
A simple arrangement of hemispherical castings on a white background produces a rich variety of grey tones.
Later when the sun has moved around the shadows are much softer
Colour – pink
The morning sunlight was particularly vivid today just at the right time to fall through an early work by my mother Rosemary Wakelin casting a pink glow onto the wood floor and throwing a pink sash around the clock-case.
The sculpture in pink and blue Perspex hangs in my hall window and reminds me of the time it hung in my mother’s house filling her kitchen with a warm pink glow.
Sally Wakelin - Studies in Creativity 
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