This ceramic knife is based on a bronze age design found in Suffolk, England. It is glazed with a gold luster. The process of making these knifes is tricky to say the least, but they are very satisfying when they work well. I like the feel of using them for ceremony, like a metal knife they are drawn from the earth, fashioned with air, spirit and water and finally transformed by fire. I have taken designs from across europe and adapted the slightly for the medium.

For those of us who wish to discribe our circle, but still allow the faye to pass on invitation, ceramic knifes are most useful. This style is approximatly 12" or 30cm long.

The original inspiration for this knife was a bronze age knife found in Yugoslavia. It is glazed with a pewter glaze which is the closest I can get to iron as the gold glaze is the closest to bronze on the knife above. Though the knives use similar styles, I like to inscribe different patterns and often the pommel shape changes depending on how the pieces of the handles and the tang go together.

This knife is slightly longer than the one above approx 14" or 35cm

I do not feel that this picture really does this goddess justice, I must get better at photography. She was made from white clay which gives good light underneath the glaze. A blue grey glaze giving a kind of moonlit effect, on red clay it is much darker almost black.

she is approx 7"/18cm

For every goddess there must be a god, these are some of the earliest ones. These guys are masculine with all a god needs, however the later gods are, shall we say, a little more upstanding!

The gods have been made in many sizes from 2"/5cm upto 8"/20cm and I would like to make larger.