The set as it is now, on the studio table
Available now · one of a kind
Guardian of the Vine
$185 NZD for the set — bowl and pot together
The curious guardian watches over the jungle, reminding every traveler that courage and kindness open every hidden path.
A ring-tailed lemur sits on the bowl with its tail curled up behind it, a monkey swings in from the left, and the vine runs the whole way around and joins itself at the back. The pot carries a single banana palm with one small gold flower. Both pieces are carved with the wavy line, cut while the concrete was still damp.
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Why yours will not look like the photograph
Every line is cut by hand and every animal is painted freehand, so the greens sit a little differently, the vine wanders its own way, and the lemur’s expression is never quite repeated. That is the whole point of buying one of these rather than a moulded pot: what you receive is the piece in the photograph, with all of its own small decisions still visible.
The honest detail
- Bowl
- 21 cm across, 8 cm tall — the low wide one, deep enough for a small root ball
- Pot
- 11 cm across, 12 cm tall — takes a standard 10 cm nursery pot inside it
- Weight
- 2.4 kg for the pair, so it sits still on a windowsill
- Materials
- Hand-pressed concrete, carved sgraffito, hand-painted in thin acrylic layers
- Drainage
- No drainage hole, by design — plant into a liner or keep the nursery pot inside, and water lightly
- Where it lives
- Indoors, or a covered porch. Not made for frost or full weather
- Sealed
- Matte water-based sealer over the paint. Handle it freely; it will not rub off
- Care
- Wipe with a damp cloth. No soaking, no dishwasher, no scouring — the painting sits on the surface
- Made
- One set, carved and painted over two afternoons in Auckland. Not repeated
