PIPISTRELLE DESIGN
Pipistrelle Design
Pipistrelle (real name Rhian Jarman) is the designer maker responsible for Pipistrelle Design, a one woman band creating unique, handcrafted ceramics and pen/watercolour illustration. Pipistrelle’s artwork is inspired by natural history and taxonomy. Her work evolves from studying and sketching the stranger forms in nature, such as fungus, whales, plankton and nautilus!
Pipistrelle has a fine art background, but found she can express her love of nature better through ceramics and drawing. She has a studio space at Maze Studios Pottery in Bristol, where she rekindled her love of squishing clay by attending classes back in 2011. The artist hand builds and sculpts in porcelain, using a variety of hand applied glazes, oxides and lustres to decorate. Each piece is entirely one of a kind.
Ceramic pieces include sculptures, homeware and jewellery, and can be displayed as artwork but also have a function through their form. The artist is best known for her signature mushroom ring/jewellery dish sculptures and bowls, as well sea creature dishes and platters, nautilus necklaces and plankton tea sets!
Pipistrelle’s illustrative work often focuses on undersea creatures with a fantastical twist, such as her Whale Ship (ship in a bottle style sperm whale) and Crystal Whale. Pipistrelle explores the anatomy of creatures through a realistic graphic style, using ink and watercolour to add patterned embellishments. She also can’t resist a bit of gold and silver to make her prints pop!
Pipistrelle sells ceramics and prints online. Visit her Etsy or Folksy shops to find out what’s in stock, or follow on Instagram for work in progress insights. The artist also stocks at Blaze Shop in Bristol, and participates in various pop up shops, arts trails and markets including The Frome Independent.
Pipistrelle hopes you enjoy her work as much as she enjoyed creating it!
Pipistrelle (real name Rhian Jarman) is the designer maker responsible for Pipistrelle Design, a one woman band creating unique, handcrafted ceramics and pen/watercolour illustration. Pipistrelle’s artwork is inspired by natural history and taxonomy. Her work evolves from studying and sketching the stranger forms in nature, such as fungus, whales, plankton and nautilus!
Pipistrelle has a fine art background, but found she can express her love of nature better through ceramics and drawing. She has a studio space at Maze Studios Pottery in Bristol, where she rekindled her love of squishing clay by attending classes back in 2011. The artist hand builds and sculpts in porcelain, using a variety of hand applied glazes, oxides and lustres to decorate. Each piece is entirely one of a kind.
Ceramic pieces include sculptures, homeware and jewellery, and can be displayed as artwork but also have a function through their form. The artist is best known for her signature mushroom ring/jewellery dish sculptures and bowls, as well sea creature dishes and platters, nautilus necklaces and plankton tea sets!
Pipistrelle’s illustrative work often focuses on undersea creatures with a fantastical twist, such as her Whale Ship (ship in a bottle style sperm whale) and Crystal Whale. Pipistrelle explores the anatomy of creatures through a realistic graphic style, using ink and watercolour to add patterned embellishments. She also can’t resist a bit of gold and silver to make her prints pop!
Pipistrelle sells ceramics and prints online. Visit her Etsy or Folksy shops to find out what’s in stock, or follow on Instagram for work in progress insights. The artist also stocks at Blaze Shop in Bristol, and participates in various pop up shops, arts trails and markets including The Frome Independent.
Pipistrelle hopes you enjoy her work as much as she enjoyed creating it!
