My love of arid landscapes influenced this collection. Strata, layered like ribbons by the natural processes of wind and water, have always fascinated me. I particularly enjoy the minimal colour palette of this geology, hence my restrained use of glazes.
Mille feuilles
Stoneware, white glaze
3 | Ruffles
Vessels | Stoneware, oxides, white glaze
Vessels | Stoneware, oxides, white glaze
Corsica
Vessels | Stoneware with white glaze
Urn | Stoneware, oxides, white glaze
Bird | Stoneware with white glaze
Black mountain
Untitled | Stoneware, crank, oxides, white glaze copy
Untitled | Stoneware, white glaze
Untitled | Stoneware, white glaze
Sea shell | Stoneware, oxides, white glaze
Rock | Stoneware, oxides, white glaze
Oyster
Mountain | Stoneware, oxides, white glaze
Family | Stoneware, oxides, white glaze
Crank, stoneware, oxides
Composition with painting
Cave | Stoneware with white glaze and oxides
Sea Vessel | Stoneware, porcelain oxides, white glaze
A pot has a lip, a foot, a shoulder, thus, already imbuing it with living form. I often ask myself why I see my pots as female vessels and why they have such a consciously feminine presence – perhaps because I associate women with the earth, with giving and nurturing, and pots with storing and serving food. And, the malleable quality of clay inspires the fluidity of the feminine body in my work.
Venus | Stoneware, white glaze
Twins wearing pearls | Stoneware, white glaze copy
The clay body is an ancient body of recycled lives and untold tales. Each coil that I roll could be a thousand years old.
When I look at ancient ceramics, I am fascinated by how they can express the sacred, despite their simplicity. My interest in archeology and ancient objects led me to explore different ways of making and decorating vessels. In this collection, I used stoneware and earthenware clays, mixing engobes with manganese and rutile on many of the pieces to achieve the correct patina.
Water carriers | Stoneware, oxides, glaze
Vessel
Tanaga | Stoneware, oxides, glaze
Tanaga | Stoneware, Crank , oxides
Untitled | Stoneware, oxides, glaze
Untitled | Stoneware, oxides, engobes, stains
Queen & king of Mesopotamia_ stoneware, porcelain slip, white glaze, oxides
Narcisus | Earthenware, oxides, glaze
King & Queen of Ur | Stoneware, white glaze
Untitled | Earthenware, with engobe and oxides copy
Untitled | Earthenware, engobes, oxides, glaze
Vase | Grogged stoneware, white glaze
Vase
Basket | Earthenware, oxides, glaze
Tower of Babel | Stoneware, stains, oxides, white glaze copy
I wanted to create a totally different collection of work by using very vibrant colours on my pots. I used glazes, underglazes and oxides on different clay bodies. Akin to painting on canvas, I found this way of working very liberating and joyous.
Priestess | Grogged earthenware, oxides, stains,
Tall Totem | Grogged earthenware, oxides stains
Egg Totem | Grogged earthenware, oxides, stains
Cat | Grogged earthenware, stains, underglazes
5 | Grogged earthenware
Pink | Grogged earthenware, oxides, stains
Vase | Earthenware, stains, underglazes
Untitled | Stoneware, stains, white glaze
Spring | Porcelain, stains, white glaze
Spring | Earthenware, stains, white glaze
Kandinsky vase | Stoneware, stains, white glaze
Kandinsky | Stoneware, stains, white glaze
Yellow | Earthenware, with oxides and stains
Yellow totem | Stoneware, oxides, stains
Untitled | earthenware, stains, underglazes
Untitled | earthenware, black stain, oxides, underglazes.
I use porcelain for its purity and white body. It is a difficult material to work with and has to be cajoled into submission. Sometimes I win, oftentimes it wins. But together we create beautiful forms.
Sea vessel | Porcelain, stains, glaze
Baroque flower | Porcelain, gold lustre, white glaze
Blue shell | Porcelain, oxides, stains, glaze
Untitled | Porcelain, gold lustre, glaze
Tree | Porcelain
Shell | Porcelain, stains, glaze
Wind | Porcelain, gold lustre, white glaze
Untitled | Earthenware, underglazes, glaze
Nest with golden pearls | Porcelain, gold lustre, white glaze
Ribbons | Porcelain, white glaze
Figure | Baroque flower, Porcelain, white glaze
Untitled | Porcelain, gold lustre, white glaze
Mollusc | Porcelain
Mountain | Porcelain, white glaze
From the sea | Porcelain, stains, glaze
Bottle | Porcelain, celadon glaze
Cups | Porcelain, stains, glaze
Porcelain family | Porcelain, stains, oxides, glaze
Composition | Porcelain, gold lustre, white glaze
Still life with painting | Porcelain, stains, glaze
Sand and Stone
Sand and Stone
