In late January I posted for help to ID an onion vase, and one GMB member suggested it might be a William Walker. Even tho' this turned out to be incorrect, the suggestion did give rise to two most unexpected outcomes. The first outcome was the strong personal friendship which developed between William and myself. The second outcome was this remarkable "Ardnamurchan" landscape bowl which William made for me just a few days ago. (Note for overseas members: Ardnamurchan is a very remote and wild peninsula on the far north west coast of Scotland). It happens to be an area which both William and myself & family are very familiar with, and the resemblance to the actual landscape is simply astonishing. The beaches, forests, lochs and hills in the bowl are exactly those places which myself and my family have tramped through a hundred times. I was present in the studio while William created the bowl, and it comprises endless layers built up one by one: first the distant horizon, then the clouds, then the hills, then the beach, then the loch.... each layer coming progressively closer to the foreground. The result is a bowl not only of remarkable accuracy, but also a bowl with a very distinctive 3-D effect. In any event, I'd like to share these photographs with other members, and also to warmly thank those members who pointed me in William's direction in the first place. Thanks, Larry.
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