Christina Wallis

I became interested in Cold Porcelain Botanical sculpture around 2015, when after dabbling for a little while with sugar flowers, I realised that the medium, due to its fragility and other properties, wasn’t going to be able to take me where I was hoping to go with flowers. Cold Porcelain air dry clay, on the other hand, ticked all the boxes, surpassed those, in fact.

Over the years, I have realized that for all the flexibility that the medium offers, there were rules of color form and composition that we, people, find pleasing to the eye and that there’s a fine line between following the rules and breaking them in the name of creativity and individuality.

No matter the stumbles such as not being able to find CP to purchase anywhere at times ( a thing of the past these days ), or the realisation that after the initial jump into flowers and making something that actually looked shockingly not unlike a flower, there was going to be a long road of very very slow steps of improvement, learning little nooks and crannies of the medium and the craft itself, all for that momentary pleasure of knowing I cracked my next goal, managed that illusive to me hitherto technicality of my chosen artform, just to immediately find that there’s a new goal already forming in my mind. And in-between the goals, there would be much slog and some frustration, but also much tranquility, quietness and calm, knowing that I was exactly where I was meant to be right at that point in time.

And so there is my love for making cold porcelain flowers with my own hands in a nutshell.

Since the time I have discovered Cold Porcelain, I have made 100s of flowers and taught more students than I could put a number on in places ranging from Victoria & Albert Museum London & Arts Council England to British Sugarcraft Guild. I also run Wallis Veiners, my own line of flower tools.

If seeing my flowers has touched some emotion in you, and you are feeling inspired, I would encourage you to welcome the chance to explore further the beautiful skill that is creating flowers with Cold Porcelain.