Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

 

T.A.C Colenbrander vase, Netherlands

1921

 

Elisabeth Schmidt-Pecht

Konstanz, Germany, 1900

 I added these first two vases because I consider them to have a highly innovative design relative to the date of their production.

 

Art of clay

 

Just as our Earth gifts a perpetual abundance of malleable clays and minerals that can be transformed into expressive forms, displaying a wide variety of natural colours and textures, ceramic artists keep discovering more creative possibilities for the malleable substance. The fact that clay vessels, as vehicles of consumption, are sourced from the same earth that our basic sustenance arrives from is a reassuring harmonic and maybe a reason of its enduring appeal.
Clay provides a natural, decorative medium that is a receptive, three-dimensional canvas, that readily absorbs paint, is durable and responds readily to manipulation and shaping. Over the ages the use of pinch pots, wheel throwing, coil construction, slab building and moulding have been stalwarts of clay production methods and are still used to craft functional and decorative wares. A tactile odyssey of various surface finishes is rendered possible by the available materials and firing processes, delivering an array of surfaces ranging from coarse textures arising from glazes that are frothy, bubbling, foaming, fissured and jagged to smooth, even and flat surfaces.
Using further enhancement after manipulation of form with techniques like incision, glazing, reduction firing, carving, slips and engobes leads to endless possibilities. It is to be expected that ceramicists quite often draw inspiration from nature and explore the inherent natural colours and textures in clays and create forms that look organic.
Here we examine some recent contemporary innovations in the ceramic arts and also look at some classic antique and vintage pieces.

 

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Zuni Indian Pottery Hand-Coiled-Frog Seed Pot by Marcus Homer

 

 

Gourd art Whitney Peckman

 

 

Venaktum West German Pottery

 

 

Mikhail Fomiryakov ‘Waterfall’ Vase

2000

 

 

Helen Martino vase

 

 

Elizabeth Fritsch, ‘Quantum Pocket II’

1992

 

 

Sculptured vase – Clare Wakefield, England

Clare Wakefield Ceramics

 

 

 

Derutamajolica-etsy — ‘Virgins Klimt’ hand painted ceramic

 

 

Peter Fitzgerald — ‘Bemused’  carved sculpture

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Recently restored  ‘Egyptian Maidens’ ceramic mural by Elsa Vick Shaw, a Cowan artist

1930

 

Betty Woodman

 

Bettty Woodman was one of the first females to blaze a trail into the male dominated world of pottery in the 50’s. She developed her craft making dinner sets and decorative crockery, but from the 1950’s onwards, she moved into the realm of sculpture. Her unrestrained, spontaneous and vibrant pieces now occupy museums and art galleries globally. At the age of 85, Woodman is still creating work in her studios in Chelsea in New York and a farmhouse in Tuscany. Her ideas appear while she is making rather than while sitting, thinking and planning. The more she creates, the “more I am inspired and the more one thing leads to another. I’m not interested in repeating myself.”

 

‘House of the South’ – Betty Woodman

Glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, – 1996 – MET

 

 

‘Vases and Girls’ – Betty Woodman

2010

David Kordansky Gallery

 

‘Tea Ceremony – 4 Parts’, 1984, glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer, paint, – Betty Woodman

David Kordansky Gallery

 

‘Roman Fresco Pleasures and Places’ – Betty Woodman

2010,  American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy

 

‘Rose et Noir Pillow Pitcher’  —  Betty Woodman

glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer, paint

David Kordansky Gallery

 

 

Betty Woodman  —  His/Hers Vases River Viewing Studio Screen, 2004,

glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer, paint, 29 x 72 x 9 inches

 

 

 ‘Piattaia’, Betty Woodman

2014, glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer, paint, canvas, wood, 65 x 60 x 12 inches

David Kordansky Gallery

 

‘The Portuguese in Japan’ by Betty Woodman

2000

 

 

‘Tanzania’, Betty Woodman, 2014

Glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer, paint, cement, 34.5 inches

David Kordansky Gallery

 

 

‘Tanzania’, Betty Woodman, 2014  (alternate view)

Glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer, paint, cement, 34.5 inches

 

 

Matthew Blakely, UK

 

Matthews ‘rock glazed’ ceramics represents the personal development of an understanding and a bond with the landscapes of Britain, illustrating the ceramic qualities of the rocks and deposits around the country. His aim is to create another way of looking at the land on which we live by making ceramic pieces that are entirely created from rocks and minerals that he has collected from individual locations. Each piece is an illustration of the ceramic and geological character of that place.

 

Matthew Blakely – tall ‘Rain Jar’

 

Matthew Blakely – ‘Fractured Jar’

 

 

Matthew Blakely ceramic globe vase with white sideway drip glaze

 

Matthew Blakely

 

 

Matthew Blakely  —  Globe vase

 

 

 

 

Wouter Hoste, Belgium

 

Wouter Hoster – ‘Meteorite 3′ – Meteorite Series 2017

Wouter Hoste

 

 

 

Wouter Hoste Ceramics – ‘Meteorites Arrival’  lamp

Wouter Hoste

 

 

Wouter Hoste -‘Nostromo Series’

With Gold and Palladium luster details.

 

 

 

Nostromo setting – ‘Nostromo 15 Lamp’. With Gold and Palladium luster details.

Wouter Hoste 2016

 

 

Wouter Hoste Ceramics – Lunar Metal Moon sculpture

 

 

 

Mougin, France — vase art deco craquelé

 

 

Nature inspired clay sculptures and ceramic art by Babette Harvey

 

 

Nature inspired clay sculptures and ceramic art by Babette Harvey

 

 

Mariko Okubo, Kyoto

 

Mariko Okubo — ‘Prayer’

2014

 

 

‘Reminisence’  —- Mariko Okubo

2017

 

 

Mariko Okubo – ‘Flower Base’

 

Paul Scott

 

Paul Scott is a Cumbrian based conceptual artist who remodels discarded ceramic shards to create new iterations. Some are recreated with the ancient Japanese kintsugi tradition of using gold and lacquer to rejoin the pieces or he just combines broken pieces to refresh the context and artistic presentation. His rescued pieces, from a combination of Chinese Willows and other blue transferwares, makes them again appear to be beautiful, functional, and intriguing. He has been Professor of Ceramics at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) since 2011.

 

 

Mended ceramic plate aesthetic – Paul Scott

 

 

Cumbrain Blue(s), ‘Fukushima No 5′  —  Paul Scott

2015

 

 

Attached ceramic shards on plate – Paul Scott

 

 

Cumbrian Blues Collaged Ceramics by Paul Scott

 

 

Cumbrian Blues Collaged Ceramics by Paul Scott

 

 

 

 Jomon era ancient pottery vase

 

 

Phosphatic glaze splashed brown stoneware jar and cover

TANG DYNASTY (618-907) –  Christie’s

 

 

Abstract Sculpture by Lena Arice Lucas – coil built – constructed clay, steel, acrylic

 

 

Acadia 3D printed turquoise sculpture with serpent surface

 

 

 

Adam Silverman footed squat jar

 

 

Adero Willard twin Siamese conjoined  abstract vase

 

 

Adero Willard contemporary ceramic vase

 

 

 

A Minton attributed majolica two-handled vase

circa 1859.

 

 

 

Art deco Squirrels vase by charles CATTEAU for BOCH KERAMIS

1923 on Etsy

 

 

Orange and black raku pottery vase – Philippe Buraud

la Porte du soleil, France

 

 

 

‘Blackbirds in our Trees’ large jar –  Rebecca A. Grant

 

 

Bodenvase Scheurich 546-52 fat lava Keramik Vase

60’s

 

 

Bowl with sgraffito or brushed decoration over slip, by Edwin and Mary Scheier

Skinner

 

 

Greek warriors in battle – Burial Pottery

Detroit Institute of Art

 

 

Clay idols for temple offerings

 

Dümler & Breiden, vintage  vase

Germany

 

 

 

Village elder in the Philippines responsible for upholding cultural traditions

 

Filipino artisans village selfie

 

 

Emile Decoeur Art Nouveau vase

 

 

Czech Art Deco Nu au Vase,  photo František Drtikol

ca.1920

 

 

Funerary portrait of a woman from Palmyra, Syria.

200–250 A.D

 

 

Ceramic abstract tile – artist unknown?

 

 

Leza Marie McVey, Vessel ca 1949

 

 

Water-Etched porcelain Cup, Jim Gottuso

In Tandem Gallery

 

 

Marcello Fantoni – Mid Century modernist lion vase

 

 

Mary Kenny

 

 

 

‘Mirage Lake’ – Wayne Higby

 

 

Wayne Higby ‘Temple’s Gate Pass’ – glazed earthenware, raku-fired

1988, Smithsonian American Art Museum

 

 

Naked Raku tumblers – Jane Murray Smith

Dragonfly Pottery

 

 

Raku polar bear by Jane Murray Smith

Height 14 inches, Dragonfly Pottery

 

 

Aldo Londi Bitossi pottery bird for Raymor –  Mid Century Modern

Italy.

 

 

Naked Raku—Slip-Glaze—Kris Paul

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I specialize in thrown and hand built fine porcelain that has been burnished to a soft polished surface that is fired in a naked raku firing. The firing process is a dance between the porcelain and the carbon atmosphere and it is not until they emerge from the reduction chamber that I know how the surface will appear. There are distinct subtleties within each individual piece that emerge through the process of manipulating the clay.

 

Pete Linforth

 

 

Pierre Boncompain ceramic vessel with reclining nude female figure drawing

 

 

Ricky Maldonado

 

 

Seth Rainville plate with couple

Rainville’s work delves into two distinct categories… “Rainville-ware” is a functional line of ceramics devoted to the art of entertaining, while his signature “Ink-ware” allows Seth the freedom to explore his desire to be a storyteller.

 

 

Seth Rainville

 

 

Tania Mallet in pottery studio in Tourettes Sur Loup, South of France

Photo – Vernier, Vogue July 1960

 

 

Paris apartment (currently on the market) with wall decoration of 100 tiny ceramic pots

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Terracotta reclining figure sculpture – Chacmool

Toltec, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacin-1200AD

 

Camille Tharaud porcelaine de Limoges, France

 

 

Camilla Ward

 

 

Hand painted owl dish by Nan Hamilton

 

 

Grotell Maija green Vase-1942 – Cranbrook Museum

 

 

Half Glaze Stoneware

 

 

‘Winter Gives Way’   —  Ken Eastman — slab sculpture

Marsden Woo Gallery

keneastman.co.uk

 

 

Tim Andrews

 

 

 

 

 Norbert Botella sculpture

 

 

 

 

Deruta 16th Century, Large dish with running plant-border

 

 

 

‘Rico the Cheetah’—Ceramic Wall Decor

GinsLilCharacters Etsy

 

Historic, Contemporary Ohio Pottery Vase At Zanesville Museum Of Art

 

 

Linda Styles ceramics,  uk

 

 

Mirta Morigi Contemporary Ceramic green glaze bowl

 

 

Adam Posnak ceramic cup—The Clay Studio

 

 

Carol Wedemeyer arabesque pottery jars

 

 

Roger Herman vase @Rich Liu TELLES FINE ART

 

 

Bitossi Ceramiche Vase by Aldo Londi

Limited Edition, 2016

 

 

Sergei Isupov—Mechanical Dummy ceramic teapot

 

 

Tapio Wirkkala – white Pollo Vase

 

 

 

Stoneware jar produced in the Belgian factory Cérabelga

Height 20cm

 

 

Young Jae Lee celadon ceramic jar

 

Karin Gulbran