Clay is an extremely diverse medium, and this quarter I have been working to use my background as a painter as influence in ceramics. Researching this idea led me to Bede Clarke. He is a ceramic artist, but he dabbles in painting and scupture as well. This is a platter by Bede Clarke, and it is a beautiful demonstration of his painterly style. I have learned that his forms are thrown, and then altered and handbuilt. His surface treatment is called engobes which is a type of slip.
This is a sculptural piece by Bede Clark. I greatly appreciate the openness and ambiguity of his work. I was struck by his description of the sculptural pieces on the website.
"Who cares if it's a pot or a sculpture, or a figure or abstract, if it's big or small, if it's flat or round or how it was fired. I'm just always trying to do the same thing - make things which say to me, "maybe there is more here than you ever imagined - can you just grow a bit taller to see it and listen a bit deeper to hear it?" It's always just ahead, just around the next corner. It can be a part of the wonderful complexity of being a human and it can also be nothing - nothing, if that's what we chose to make of it." Clarke's statement demonstrates an attitude of art that I can realte to. I enjoy approaching art in an experimental manner without a perfect vision of what it will turn out to be.
This is a tray by Linda Arbuckle, and she created a great form with this peice. It is a simple shape, but very finctional. It appears that she added the handles to the orginal form, but she synthesized the tray very well with the surface treatment.
In investigating cups and trays, I knew that I wanted to create a form in cups that would be functional without a handle. I found a set of cups by Sanam Emami that emanated this idea.
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