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