Ceramic designer John Booth has created five contemporary stoneware cremation urns decorated with joyful colours and flowers for death specialist Farewill.
The London-based artist added three-dimensional flower decorations to the square and rounded ceramic urns and covered the white stoneware with his signature vibrant designs painted with wide brushstrokes.
"I wanted the shapes of the urns to feel monumental and bold," Booth told Dezeen.
Top image and above: the cremation urns are decorated with bright colours
The handmade urns, which were made to hold ashes after cremations, were designed for "death specialist" Farewill, which handles funerals, wills and probates.
They can be a place to keep ashes before scattering them, or be kept on display in the home in memory of someone who has passed away. Booth used the same materials to create the vessels as he usually uses for his work so that the designs were in line with his other pieces.
Flowers were added to the tops and sides
"The urns are slab-built from white stoneware and decorated with slip colours that I have stained myself, and then clear glazed and high fired," Booth said.
"I made a point of not changing or adjusting any of the colours or materials I use regularly as I wanted the urns to be a continuation of my work and not to be thought of as an anomaly, despite the fact that they definitely sit within a different context than my usual work."
Booth made the urns from white ston...