By Cally James MA and Tim Healey

Tim Healey- Painter
Cally James MA- Ceramic and Sculptural Artist


Zen Martian Garden – The Purple Collection
Tim Healey


Zen Martian Garden – The Red Sky Collection
Cally James MA

Tim Healey- Painter and Cally James - Ceramic Artist have come together for the Online Collaboration with a mutual interest in nature. The initial meeting sparked a conversation about the warmth of the colours on Mars. This became the focus of their project. Tim and Cally continue to explore materiality, surface, texture and take inspiration from natural forms such as The Moeraki Boulders, formations of bark and Kandinsky - Several circles. Following several virtual meetings and a platform to share visual ideas they are working on ‘Zen Martian Garden’ combining an interplay of objects and elements of both their practices. Cally and Tim are creating a mini universe combining ceramic and painting.

The Process
Cally James MA
Cally experimented with different clay types beginning to think about surface texture and relating it to a natural theme.

Tree bark texture created using crank clay .

The painting process
Tim Healey


The Joining of forces.
Cally and Tim worked together photographing the Zen Martian Garden using different exposures of light and many compositions before the final selection was decided.
Ceramic and Acrylic painting amalgamation.
Day Light Photography
Artificial light photography Dark Room Photography
Choosing the background colours presented more questions than answers; should we leave it as the image was captured or manipulate the colours to agree with our original idea of a Martian Garden?


The next image captured colour, texture and light this informed the decisions making.
