Catherine White Ceramics

Both her ceramics and drawings reflect the balanced japanese aesthetic and her site has a grounded zen ambience.

Catherine white ceramics.

These pots came out of giving myself the assignment to use up a batch of clay and a shape that will. I chose to work in a white clay with a gas fired clear glaze. In the summertime i keep a journal that is based on stringing beads. Examining past firings each one distinctly stands out.

I work in partnership with the clay heat flame and ash deposits. I draw a loose line down the side of my page and then make five or six circles on the line like beads on a thread. Dec 20 2018 explore alistair willshaw s board catherine white ceramics on pinterest. 1 122 likes 20 comments catherine white artistpotter on instagram.

As my glaze work evolved i added layers obtaining depth and variation by irregularly applying a. Firing the anagama is a collaboration. White a ceramic artist is married to warren alan frederick. When we started our studio the first and fundamental inspiration i drew from woodfired pottery was to strip my work of surface decoration.

The photography and use of quotes and poetry with her ceramic display are really worth a look. See link below. The bride until recently was a ceramics teacher at the columbia md visual arts college from which mr. I live and work in the rolling hills of virginia one hour west of washington dc.

Catherine white s ceramic blog on her work and perceptions is paradoxically labelled rough ideas as her ceramic pieces and presentation are superb and very refined. I am committed to making objects both artistic and usable. I love the metamorphosis of clay from dust to mud to rock via the collaboration of hand clay fire and use. Findings 8 nancy selvin 2012 bottles catherine white still life 3d nancy selvin and catherine white are both talented artists that fuse imagery of pottery real pots and drawings into clever collages that blur the distinction between 2d and 3d to present hybrid wholistic dimensions that could almost be described as 2 5d presented in a still life tradition.

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