Ruby Taylor - Native Hands.

Ruby is a potter, basket maker, bush crafter and educator facilitating immersive nature experiences through outdoor workshops in materials-led processes. Ruby crafts functional and sculptural objects from locally foraged materials, including plant fibres and clay, and teaches others to do so too. Her mission is to reframe our culture’s approach to materialism through celebrating natural resources, their sustainable harvest and the traditional wisdom and knowledge of working with them.

www.nativehands.co.uk
 
 
 
Environmental Portrait of Ruby Taylor, Basket Weaver and Wild Pottery
Various Baskets In Dappled Light on Woodland Floor, Basket Weaving
 
 
Converse Shoes Digging Wild Pottery Clay With Fork and Bucket
 
Hands Breaking Raw Clay Above Bucket For Wild Pottery
 
 
Environmental Portrait Ruby Taylor, Next to Spade and Bucket of Clay
 
Close-up of Hands Working with Clay on Bench
 
Close-up of Hands Working Clay on Bench
 
 
 
Close-Up, Hands Finishing Touches on Wild Clay Open Fire Pottery
Various Clay Bowls Ready to Be Fired in Open Fire Kiln
 
Fire Making With Striker and Natural Materials
Fire Making Natural Materials, Open Fire Wild Pottery, Lewes, East Sussex
Ruby Taylor Tending to Fire, Wild Pottery, East Sussex
Close-Up, Fired Wild Pots In Open Fire Pottery Embers
Environmental Portrait Ruby Taylor, Tending to Wild Pottery Open Kiln Fire
 
Pots Firing At Last Stage of Wild Pottery Firing Process
 
 
Close-Up Wild Pottery Cup Firing in Open Fire, East Sussex
Close-Up, Fired Wild Pottery Cup Held In Hands, East Sussex
 
 
 
Bullrush Basket Weaving Plants Growing in Reed Bed
Ruby Taylor, Foraging for Bullrush Basket Weaving Materials
Ruby Taylor, Carrying Foraged Bullrush Basket Weaving Materials Over Her Shoulder
 
Ruby Taylor, Sorting Foraged Bullrush Basket Weaving Materials
Ruby Taylor's Basket Weaving Materials and Tools in Basket
Close-Up of Ruby Taylor Weaving a Small Bullrush Basket
Ruby Taylor Weaving Bullrush Basket in The Forest, Lewes East Sussex
 
Ruby Taylor, Crafting Wild Pottery Cup in Workshop, Lewes, East Sussex
 
Close-Up, Hands Crafting Wild Pottery Cup in Workshop
 
 
Various Finished Natural Woven Baskets and Bark Containers
 
 

Craft & Nature

Often I photograph stories that lie at the intersection of craft and nature. I document the dynamics of how we humans have learnt to work with materials to create useful and beautiful objects, pulling on my working understanding of both the natural world and the process of craft.

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