Glaze Study

A ceramics lookbook made against a backdrop painted for the shoot and a wall we left unfinished.

Client: Ostra Clayworks
Discipline: Still life
Year: 2025
Made at: Stage Two
Licensed use: Lookbook, wholesale and website · worldwide · 3 years
Delivered: 22 product images, lookbook layout selects

Credits

Photographer Ines Halloran
Painted backdrop Ruth Ansel
Prop styling Ilse Brandt

Ostra's glazes are loud, so we gave them something louder to stand against: a backdrop painted for the day by an artist friend, and a section of our own wall that had been stripped back to plaster.

The tableware went on white, overhead, so wholesale buyers can see the shapes without the theatre.

7 frames

A blue and a brown glazed vase side by side against a painted yellow and black backdrop. — Celadon and tenmoku bottles against the painted backdrop.

The blue and brown vases on a white shelf against the painted backdrop. — The pair, for the lookbook spread.

The blue vase on a mustard ring stand against the painted backdrop. — On the mustard ring, for the cover.

A pink bowl and cup on a sage-green plate on a white table, more cups behind. — Blush and sage tableware, from the side.

Marbled blue-and-white vases, cups and small dishes with dried flowers against a peeling plaster wall. — Marbled vases against the plaster wall.

Marbled vases with dried flower stems on a white shelf against the plaster wall. — The same set with the dried sorghum.

Top view of pink and sage-green plates and bowls on white. — Tableware from above, for the wholesale sheet.

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