Illona Morrice

Hi I'm Illona, I'm a sculptor.

I live by the sea, on the Moray coast in Scotland. I am a keen mountaineer and lots of my inspiration comes from the rocks and stones on the beach and the mountains around here.

Over the years I've realised I can say much more with less, so my sculptures have become more simplified, but I hope more powerful.

Some of the sculptures I make in stoneware clay and fire them to 1240 degrees c in a kiln. These are laboriously and individually made by hand, and no two are ever the same.

Others are cast in bronze, some sandcast others by the lost wax method, which means the sculpture is modelled in wax, encased in a plastermould and filled with molten bronze after the wax is melted out.

Each piece is slightly different, colour etc, and only a small edition is made ie. 6 or so.