Handbuilt Ceramic Art

Artists Describing Their Art:

Thomas Van Horn - I believe in an ongoing creation. All new moments and the events therein, even the thoughts, are evidence of the creation happening. When I work artistically, or any other way, I participate in that creation. I co-create with the mechanism of creation with what I like to call my heart mind hands. Every stroke of the brush is absolutely new to the universe. It's never happened just like that before. Even if I could make the exact same mark twice, which I can't, the surrounding circumstances and environment would be different for each mark. I don't try to plan a work too much because every work seems to take on its own life and guides me more than me guiding it. I jokingly call my genre accidentalism as so many works seem to result from happy accidents. In the balance of intuition and craft, I have leaned towards letting it go rather than making it come. ...

Melissa Lockhart - To create a unique and different look and admiration for the medium of Paper mache and clay work. To fill peoples homes with somthing diferent and to teach people to express themselfs no matter what they think there skill level is....

Susan Rudolf - The journey begun in Europe and crossed the Atlantic to flourish on one of the most beautiful islands of the Caribbean. On Curacao just as in Hungary and Austria the beauty of the country, nature and population enchanted me and it shows in my works all the passion, the harmony and the beauty which I've never been able to stop looking for. The endless horizon, the bright colors and the warmth all year long inspire me to work without limitation in time, space and mind. I want to share with you all this creative, passionate feelings for mosaic art on the following pages, offering some workshops and classes in the studio and give you the possibility to own some of my works by buying online. Welcome in the world of mosaic art without limitations, beyond imagination online, life or through the purchased art projects created by me. Susan Rudolf ...

Daniel Janssens - "It is the woman's beauty and mystery that have made me paint and sculpt in the first place." The artist, who previously painted only one human figure per painting, has recently begun to represent several figures, and these figures are no longer exclusively women. In sculpture also, the single human figures of the beginning are gradually replaced by intertwined figures, that go by two, by couple, or even by trio or quartet. "Previously, it was the individual that questioned me. Now, increasingly, I paint and sculpt attitudes and relationships." Painting and sculpture are based on different relationships: that between the sculptor-painter and his painting or sculpture, that between colors and shapes, that between the spectator and the work of art, and finally, the possible relationship between the different spectators. "However, I have not become a narrative artist, even if the spectator can invent stories about the human figures they see depicted." - But why only one subject? - Because the more one concentrates on one - and only one - subject, the deeper one can go, and the more style and technique can speak freely. If one always seeks to change subjects, it becomes difficult to specialize in it." It is the...

Hans Borgonjon - The ineffable phenomenal part of our experiences is one of the few things we truly own. What it is like to see a blue sky, taste coffee or wine is very difficult if not impossible to communicate. The subjectivity of our experiences is, in my opinion, one of the foundation stones of the self. That is why I find it so important to increase awareness of it in this world of encroaching second-hand impressions and ever growing superficiality. By removing the hooks that make it all too easy to make conditioned suppositions of what our senses communicate. I want to increase this subjective awareness by creating tensions through contrasts and ambiguities within my objects: Familiarity & Alienation Organic & Formal Simple & Complex Normal & Abnormal Traditional & New Individual & Universal The common shape of the cylinder forms the basis of my work. By deconstructing and reconstructing this form I keep on challenging a traditional view of this familiar object. I reposition the object in a 3-dimensional space. I enlarge the form to an almost human scale. I occupy the walls of the cylinder with a structure that simultaneously divides and supports. This structure starts to inhabit the contained space instead of the ...

Jason Messinger - Jason Messinger creates ceramic art that straddles the cool allure of pure abstraction and the hot recognition of representation. His art explores the fuzzy borders between representation and abstraction, identity and design, meaning and beauty. Sculptures that are abstract in shape but with a figurative sensibility, and tile murals with symbolic imagery that tease the viewer into becoming complicit in their meaning. The sculptures are solidly present while expressly fluid. They change appearance with the viewers' perspective, transforming in shape and direction. Each face of the work functions like movements of a dance, with unexpected turns. Different perspectives on the work converse with each other, creating a circular narrative of motion and stillness, form and emotion. The artist approaches ceramic tile with a painter's concerns and a sculptor's experience. The idea of abstraction on the edge of identification permeates the work. Images often hint at language, symbol, map, comic strip, or hieroglyph; but only hint, as the symbols remain undefined, transitional. His multi-tile works are modular, allowing any configuration and sequence of the tiles. The murals exhibit a circular narrative, open-ended to interpretation. The viewer becomes complicit in constructing the meaning. Mounting systems allows one to ...