Ceramic art
creates
happiness
I’m an artist inspired by nature, music, my state of mind, and memories. The outcome is reflected in my ceramics, food, and photography.
15 years ago, as a mother of two young kids (now four), I realized that I needed time of my own, and I had a deep desire to engage my creative mind into something. Clay interested me, because it is such a tactile material. It feels good in my hands, and that good feeling allows me to let my spirit, passion, and sense of aesthetics emerge to it.
I like the process driven nature of ceramics, constant problem-solving, and ever evolving learning process. You can never create an exact replica, because the kiln and glazes work a little bit differently every time, adding a sense of uniqueness to each piece. I focus mainly on wheel throwing, but I also combine it with hand building, thinking the possibilities are endless that way. Working with clay crafts a conversation between the physical and mental parts of me. Sometimes I find myself consciously thinking of my brain giving orders to my hands.
Like a flower vase gives the shape and form to flowers, a plate can make food look better (and taste better).
Timeless beauty
Ceramic art creates timeless beauty. It carries ancient themes, yet they can have very contemporary and personal looks. There are many things in the process that you can and must control, but clay always leaves space for surprises, beautiful mistakes, variation and imagination.
Clay is delicate but strong; simple but complex; ancient, but modern; controlled, but unpredictable; functional and/or sculptural—full of balancing contrasts.
It makes so many different expressions possible, that it can never get boring. And I hope my energy of making my pieces shows in them.
“A hand, since I have taken that example, is not only a part of a body, it is the expression and extension of a thought that must be grasped and rendered.”
