Grey Rabbit Collection

This collection of ceramics is an experimentation with a grey groggy clay, and a velvet pebble glaze. It remains me of the old ‘velveteen rabbit’ story written by Margery Williams Bianco (1922). A much loved velvet rabbit toy was loved by its child so much that it became ‘real’. The moral of the story is that we become truly real through the process of vulnerability and connection.

Anyway, enough of the deep philosophical meaning - this is a time for tea, a time for connection and catching up. A little bit random and handcrafted in the finish to the handles and shape, but just enough to be real with each other and share life as it is.

“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”

- The Velveteen Rabbit