The elegantly reductive forms produced by Karin Blach Nielsen are determined, in part, as much by her interest in glazes as they are by the habits of her hands. “Exploring glazes is a ceramics tradition that I think is important to maintain and expand,” shares Karin.
We are an ever-changing collection of collections and objects brought together, created as a kind of family, held together by a thoughtful exploration of form, material and color.
Carefully built as much as they are formed freely by hand, the multi-layered pieces of Patrick Kingshill operate beyond the usual confines of vessel or sculpture. Think still life, totem, architecture. For all the seeming precision of his work, these forms are spun of spontaneity, with many fails along the way. “The thing that I am always honing and thinking about is formal composition, shares Patrick.
Working from studios in Connecticut and Southern California, Warner Walcott draws from his world travels and cultural curiosity to create functional pieces and decorative objects that celebrate technique and materiality. Mid-century Scandinavian, British, and French artisans are an abiding source of inspiration. The repetitive motifs in his Barb, Thorn, Lupe and Sucker lamps, for example, are a nod to Danish master, Axel Salto.
Nature is not always kind and we are often nasty to her in turn. But there is a terrible beauty in the dried husk of a tree stricken down by lighting or a prairie struggling to reassert itself after the depredations of the plow. Inspired by quarried mountains and the desolate coastlines of his native Ireland, Simon Kidd distills from harsh reality pleasing objects that possess a hint of danger and chaos. Slip cast and fired in an electric kiln, these porcelain pieces are reflections of the artist’s own encounter with the environment.
L.A. native Victoria Morris has been steeped in the making of pottery for more than 20 yrs. With inspirations derived from Nordic and Japanese makers, as well as the masters Lucy Rie, and Gertrude and Otto Natzler, she practices her craft striving for elegant proportions and experimental glazing. Though drawn to creating clean forms, Victoria embraces the subtle and random imperfections inherent to traditional studio pottery.