Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

Knead, bend, roll, throw, twist, pound, bake, beg, weep ….  just a few of the myriad manipulations at one’s disposal to innovate with clay. This amazing substance from the earth is a loyal servant of the ceramic arts. Forever challenging its creator to find the right aesthetic balance and appeal. Sometimes it only takes a slight adjustment to the form for it to transmute from ordinary to brilliant. Great pieces are sometimes born in the conceptual stage, taking shape with a sketch or just a casual idea. Other times it’s not till the final bake that vague concepts crystallize into a rewarding result. Featured below is a collection of pieces from the studio cauldron of coercion, creativity, inspiration, adaption and sublimity; selected for their originality in form, surface and design, with a mixture of both complex and simple styles, past and present.

 

 Royal Crown Derby vase – 1882

 

 

 

Wig Vase by  Designer Tania D’Cruz

Porcelain Cup – Ann Van Hoey, Belgium

 twin handled fishes motif vase – Adrian Brough, UK

 

 

 

 Arek Szwed figurines

Alezja Laboratory of Ceramic Arkadiusz Swede

 

 Carved and wood fired vase – Mark Smalley

 

 Egyptian Revival Art Deco gilt trimmed Vase with Egyptian motif –  Noritake, Japan

 

 

 

 Peacock Vase – 1920’s Art Deco

 

 

 Banana Bud Vases – Jonathon Adler

 

 

 Checkered wedding vase by Lydia Ponce

Graphite black on black cuadritos

 

 

Forestware by Lauren Kaplan

Cape Town – South Africa

 

 

 

 Minimalist wheel thrown bottles

Blue Room Pottery, etsy

 

 

 

 The Living Art Range – tripod planter

Light From Africa Foundation

 

 Terre vernissée – Christine Zablocki and Sébastien Lopes

terresdeprovence.org

 

 Candlesticks with carved surface – Muddy Creek Pottery

 

 

 

 Ceramic sculpture – Julia Feld

 

 

 

 Elephant handbuilt with coils – Klaywerk Studio

 

 ‘Alien Mardi Gras’ – Ricky Maldonado

2005

 

 

 Beret Storage Jar – Helen Frik, Nl

 

Wall Art Mosaic –  ‘Steely Abstraction‘ – Lynn Adamo

 Mixed media wall panel. Granite, obsidian, basalt, galena, vintage Italian and Mexican smalti, beads, Bullseye glass, aluminum, hand made ceramic coil and wire on handmade tile substrates

 

 

 

Wall Planter by Earth Magic with celtic knot motif

 Jonathan Middlemiss, UK

Chinese Cloisonne  Phoenix fung hwang Statue

Height 20 “

Biennale d’architecture 2014, Venice, Italy

  Urinal (Vineta model) in neo-baroque style mixed with neo-renaissance – Ditmara Factory Czech Republic

1895

 

 

 

French Elchinger Mid-Century folded vase – matt and volcanic glaze – 1950’s

 

 

 

 

Potfest display 2014 – Nigel Edmondson

photo – Christine Cox – flickr

 

 

 

Ceramic guinea fowl – Gabrielle Lindemann

Provence Region, South of France

 

 

Gerd Rohling – Nothing For all

Gallery- piet hein eek

 

 

 Contemporary ceramic sculpture – Goro Suzuki

 

Cream and Sugar set – ibcooper – etsy

 

 Joelle Gervais— ‘ La balançoire’

photo Claude Lieber

 ‘My sculptures are unique. They are connected with the world around me, the fragile trace of an ephemeral presence, a bridge between my emotions and other people’s eyes, make an intimate view of the world. A time, a meeting, a situation, a look are my sources of inspiration.’

 

 

 Neo Nouveau vase by Carol Long

 

Hitomi Hosono – tropical flowers are the inspiration for her carved porcelain sculptures

designbloom

 

 

 

Vessel with stopper – Takashi  Ikura

2008

 

 

 

 

Ivana Batalo, Belgrade

 

 

 

  Jean Paul Landreau – ‘Humanoides ‘

photo – Christine Cox – flickr

 

 

 

 Earthenware vase, geometric shape with abstract pattern by  Jenny Orchard

 

 

 

 John Ward

 

 

 Coil built stoneware vessel with black glaze and incised sgraffito decoration.

Larry Halvorsen

 

 

 

 Lauren Gallaspy

 

 

 

  Fabien Jouvin floral and script decorated Chinese vase

14.inch height

Hap Moore Antiques

 

 

Modern vase designs made to look like stitched leather. They are actually made from high quality porcelain – Madieke Fleuren

 

 

 

Silhouette Vase – Yuko Tokuda

 

 

 

Carved marble vase – Sonaarts

 

 

 

 Patricia Urquiola – porcelain vases

 

 

Unlimited Edition – Pieke Bergmans – 2007

pgallery

 

 

 

 Porcelain Cabbage bowl –  Anon Pairot design studio

 

 

 

‘ 57 Stretch’  teapot –  Robert Lawarre

 

 

 

 Rustic woodland ceramic spoon sculpture  – Jo Lucisted

 

 

 

 Jean Baptiste and Séraphin Giordan designed ginger jar for Serves, France

 

 

 

 Tilting Vase ‘ -Intelligent vase designed by David Sweeney begins to ‘lie down’ when it needs water, then stands again when water is added to the side spout.

 

‘ Tilting Vase ‘ -Intelligent vase designed by David Sweeney

 

 

 

Modern vases with balloon inserts. –  German designer Anika Engelbrecht

 

 

 

 Anika Engelbrecht swelling vase

 

 

 

 The ‘Proust’  limited edition miniature armchair –  hand painted ceramic ware by Alessandro Mendini, and produced by superego

designbloom

 

 

‘Hula Hoops’ vase –  Giopato & Coombes – Can be split to create a wine bottle cooler

 

Stig Lindberg

  ‘Walk Streets’

A hand sculpted, hand painted stoneware vessel by Brenda Holzke

 

 

 

 Large garden planter

Water Features Direct,  AUS

 

 

 

Beate Anderson

 

 

 

Big Bull – Gambone

50’s

 

 

‘Inner Space’ – Erin-etsy

 

 

 

Crimson red glaze vases – Fance Frank &  Eliche Guy

 

 

 

Philip Jackson—‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

 

 

Louis Gosselin

 

 

 

Hamada Shoji

 

 

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