Nicky Kehoe - Olive Ash Offering Bowl

Olive Ash Offering Bowl from Forest and Found.

Artists Max Bainbridge and Abigail Booth sourced the beautiful olive ash wood for this beautiful offering bowl from a felled tree discovered in North East London. 

Olive Ash is the transformation of regular ash wood by a process through which a fungus (in this case a horseshoe fungus) moves through the living tree, turning the pale grain of the ash into a dark and smoky figuring. 

Through gesture of the maker and interaction with the natural, the wood's distinctive elements are elevated and transformed into objects symbolic of human ritual — canvases that conjure both the meditative and monumental.

Artists Max Bainbridge and Abigail Booth source their natural materials from urban and rural landscapes in and around the UK and use fire, earth, water and hand tools to shape the wood and build subtle shifts in color on the surface of each piece. Their exploration of the living tree is rooted in the physicality of the embodied vessel and carved object. These organic vessels provoke thought and dialogue around landscape, material, process and ritual. 

Measures: 25cm x 72cm

One of a kind. Handcrafted in England.