Ceramic Art Treasure: Maria Wojdat

Maria Wojat is an UK ceramic artist. She creates sculptural vessels that are forms which derive from observing everyday domestic ceramics. When she works with the clay she allows the clay to form itself, to create a shape by a force of action. Her prices is using outsize pestles and mortars to pound and grinding action, to see how it reacts with the clay. In her statement she said, "The journey is making a piece is by spontaneity and control, the organic and the geometric." She finds that color is very important in her sculptures. The element of color is brings out in the piece a warm vibrant and joyful palette that has evolved and continues to evolve to echo the nature of the forms. Her works references bowls, and the investigating its use. They are usually placed in pairs and groups with the relationships of lines, form and color. The colors help to either bring the pieces together or standing alone. 

Maria Wojat is a Ceramic Art Treasure!

For more information: http://www.mariawojdat.co.uk/index.html

Ceramic Art Treasure: Susan Beiner 

Susan Beiner is a very interesting artist. Her forms are very organic and natural. She gains a lot of inspiration from industrial objects and new discoveries from the environment that is around her. By the surrounding environment, she takes in the colors, textures, and how their combination fall into patterns in nature. From Susan's statement, "I admire shapes of hardware but while negating their intended function, I utilize them as organic specimens rather than industrial fasteners. I search to find a relationship between these disparate parts, as the gap between man-made and natural becomes ever decreasing." I love how Beiner searches her environment to create and recreates something that may be ugly into a whimsical and beautiful shapes. 

Susan Beiner is turally a Ceramic Art Treature! 

For more information on Susan Beiner: http://susanbeinerceramics.com/home.html

Ceramic Art Treasure: Netty Vandennuvel 

 I researched more of Netty Vandennuvel work for inspiration for my ceramic finale. Netty have such organic forms within her pieces. Using coil technique to create her pieces reflects Botany or the lymphatic system in human bodies. I love how she takes into account the placement for her work. The mounting on the wall without using a shelf but hanging them in a way that shows they are self-reliant; effortless. Event the seize of them or wonderful. I enjoy the large coil piece on the floor. The piece looks for fragile yet its stands alone with power and elegant. Vandennuvel's work sparks an excitement inside of me. I desire to create an installation that has such beauty and organic forms such as Vandennuvel's work possesses. 

Netty Vandennuvel is a Ceramic Art Treasure! 

For more information on Vandennuvel: http://www.nettyvandenheuvel.nl/index1.htm

Ceramic Art Treasures: Nathan Craven

Nathan Craven is an ceramic installation artists. His work is very detailed and large. These cookie cutter like pieces of clay bring together an architectural structure that is powerful and elegant. I am a installation artist of ready-mades, and I am so inspirited by Craven's work. From his personal website his artists statement, "Most of my work is based on ceramics as building materials, specifically the brick, which has a long history of use as a unit of construction. The building of walls and floors, their placement, and the materials they are made from create varying spaces and determine our interactions within an architectural volume. Constructing porous walls and floors with my own versions of "bricks" I aim to define and clarify space in ways that draw attention to these otherwise unnoticed elements as well as to the spaces in which we dwell." 

Nathan Craven is a great and valuable ceramicists in the art world, his work is inspirational to other artists, ceramicists, installationist and architectures. 

He is a Ceramic Art Treasure! 

More information on Nathan Craven: http://www.nathancraven.com/site/Home.html 

Ceramic Art Treasure: Lucinda Brown

Lucinda Brown is an very interesting ceramist. She is infatuated by figures or portraitures in sculptural form. She explores the meaning behind facial expressions and the observation of one's face. "My inspiration is from the heart, the feeling of serenity I try to hold onto throughout my day finds, its expression my art." Each portrait is made exclusively. She crafts then with many hours and sometimes days refining a likeness. These faces are molded in clay then cast in plaster. She only uses the cast once, which makes the piece very costly. "The head and shoulder portraits are a labour of love and I jump for joy literally when another one is completed, delighting in incredible gift. 

Lucinda passion to make individual pieces of artwork with such emotions makes her a Ceramic Art Treasure! 

Here is more information of Lucinda: 

http://www.lucindabrownsgallery.com/

Ceramic Art Treasures: Throwing an Apple 

I am a beginning thrower on the wheel with Ceramics, and I am very bad at it. I was searching for videos that could help me understand how to throw better. I am across this video. The Ceramicist is throwing an apple in 2mins. I am barely center my clay in that amount of time, so for a beginning on the wheel watching this video, I am amazed how they made this apple. I enjoy watching it not only because they made an apple but also because how quickly they make it, and their techniques are elegant and smooth.

 This apple is truly a Ceramic Art Treasure!

Hopefully, I can make one soon..

Ceramic Art Treasures: Pablo Picasso 

Finding out that Pablo Picasso was also a ceramist was very exciting news. I have Picasso has a painter, and I wanted to look at his ceramic work. Just as much as I love his paintings, I fell in love with his ceramic pieces. He not only did a couple but hundreds just as he sketched all the time. One of my favorite quotes from Picasso is, “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” He truly did that within his work. Picasso created unique forms and shapes with animals, women, and objects. Finding Picasso’s ceramic art pieces marts him, Ceramic Artists Treasure!

More information on Picasso: 

http://www.madoura.com/foreword.html 

Ceramic Art Treasures: Ceramic Assemblage 

Dennis Shields 

Jeanne Quinn 

I was searching for Ceramic Assemblage artists and came across Dennis Shields and Jeanne Quinn. 

Both Dennis and Jeanne incorporate ready mades or found objects in their works of arts. In Dennis unconventional teapots he put a plastic toy gun as the handle of the teapot, and made the skull as the body of the teapot. Jeanne's exhibitions called A Thousand Tiny Deaths she has balloons coming out of ceramic pots, giving the image as if the balloons were slowing coming out and when they come out will break the pot. I find both of these Artists to be very imaginative and unique in there works. 

They are Ceramic Art Treasures! 

For more information of these Artists: 

http://www.jeannequinnstudio.com/index.html

http://www.saatchionline.com/dennisshields

Ceramic Art Treasures: Daniel Bare 

Daniel Bare plays around with the every-day object, the cup, and transforms it into a powerful, yet,   beautiful way.  Bare artist statement, 

"In my work, I examine the impact of overproduction, consumption and disposal of resources to show how these actions affect ecological balance. I feel an over-powering sense of gluttony and greed when I see the plethora of disregarded products that are briefly used and disposed casually. This cycle is indicative of a human view of resources and the world as an endless and miraculously self-renewing material. Curiously, one could see a beauty and power in the vastness of multiples and the sheer numbers of objects that are crafted everyday without notice." 

Bare's way of perceiving this power of greed and consumption is a refreshing viewpoint compared to the consumerism culture that we live in today. 

To see more of Bare's work below is the link for his website: 

http://www.danielbare.com/index.html

His viewpoint makes his work Ceramic Art Treasures! 

Ceramic Art Treasure: Mel Robson 

Mel Robson is an Australian based ceramic artist who makes functional and non-functional objects out of porcelain. She finds value in road maps, recipes, sewing patterns and handwriting. I was looking for inspiration for my next piece and I love handwritten objects, which Mel right away caught my eye. I find her work to be very simple, yet, elegant, and conceptually based. 

Mel's work is Porcelain Art Treasures!