Ruskin Black Studios

11/04/2024

03/04/2024

How does your Dark Ylang arrive? In these black glass bottles with a practical dripper inbuilt for applying to your oil burner.

29/03/2024

Autumn is hear and so is the soup, the Dark Ylang Ylang scent makes you feel toasty and warm with its woody notes. Did you know that Dark Ylang Ylang was designed and comprised here in Naarm (Melbourne). With consultations with Yen the Co-founder of

29/03/2024

Soy & beeswax with the Dark Ylang Ylang oil create the most beautiful chemical pattern in between burns. The natural crackling of the wood wicks adds to sensory experience.

28/03/2024

Dark Ylang Ylang fragrance

A custom fragrance from the studio Ylang Ylang, yuzu, sandalwood, patchouli & vetiver. Inspired by native Australian Ylang Ylang, Japanese floral eleglance & dark earthy forests.

14/03/2024

Check out the matcha chawans I created in the studio. Exorcising the concept of Wabi Sabi (perfection in imperfection) & Japanese techniques of kurinuki (meaning to carve or to hollow) and firing techniques of Raku. Like much of the work from my studio I draw much inspiration from using fire as a constructive & protective element.

The clay and wood flakes are all Australian with the Raku clay having been dug from Dja Dja Wurrung (central Victoria on the map), Kurinuki was undertaken Woi Wurrung (north side of Melbourne) and the Raku was practiced in Wadawurrung (Geelong)

Hopefully soon to be made available online.

Photography by Jennifer Saunders

12/03/2024

Check out the matcha chawans I created in the studio. Exorcising the concept of Wabi Sabi (perfection in imperfection) & Japanese techniques of kurinuki (meaning to carve or to hollow) and firing techniques of Raku. Like much of the work from my studio I draw much inspiration from using fire as a constructive & protective element.

The clay and wood flakes are all Australian with the Raku clay having been dug from Dja Dja Wurrung (central Victoria on the map), Kurinuki was undertaken Woi Wurrung (north side of Melbourne) and the Raku was practiced in Wadawurrung (Geelong)

Hopefully soon to be made available online.

23/10/2023

RAW HANDS; oil paint on Shou Sugi Ban repurposed timber. Available for commissions via website.

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