Details
| First Name | Ulla |
| Last Name | Egholm |
| Nickname | UllasUnika |
My Ceramics
| In the studio I like to do | Handbuilding, Throwing on the Wheel, Sculpting, Slip casting |
| Pottery Wheel | The Whisper |
| Clay body | Earthenware, Stoneware, Porcelain |
| Clay Brand | Clay from different firms and claymakers: From Georg and Schneider, Potclay, from Cerama in Denmark, |
| Kiln Type | Electric Kiln, Raku Kiln |
| Temperature | eathernware: 1040 degrees, stoneware 1240 degrees, porcelain to 1280-1300 degrees |
| Glaze | Eathernware:
Stoneware and porcelain:
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| You can buy my work from | I sell my work in Galleries on and off. I always sell through my instagramprofile I make what I like to make, and sell it. I don´t take orders to make |
About Me
| Introduction | My name is Ulla, and I am a self-taught ceramic artist. I live i Denmark on the very top of the mainland in Skagen. I have ocean nearly all around me, a rough clima and a lot of wind. I love to live here. I have been in love with clay for the last 17 years. It started up as sculptures, raku firing and eathernware projects, because I like the colors I can get, when it is 1040 degrees, and now I love to make food serving bowls, jugs, plates, vases and cups aswell. It is now stoneware because I found Mayco colors, and they are pleasingly colorful in stoneware aswell as in eathernware. Right now I want to go bigger, so I am buying my second kiln. I really love to handbuild with my clay, so I am not a master with the wheel :-). |
| What I Love about Ceramics | I love everything about ceramics. The process where I build my sculptures or kitchenware is my first favorite part of my adventure with the clay. I am in my own flow-state when I am here. The drying process makes me very impatient, but it is at the same time an important step to structure, so my work gets ready to either slippaint when leatherhard or bisquefire before decorating and glazing. I love the decorating and glazing part of the journey to the final product. I hold my breath every time I open my kiln to see how the latest work on my clay turned out, and I LOVE to look down in my kiln, and to hold the finished piece in my hand again. |
| How I started with ceramics | I started by buying a kiln, and take courses in the basics of clay 17 years ago. I have sculptured (and still do) in other materials and painted af lot with oil and acrylics, so I have taken that with me in my claywork aswell. I have seen thousands of how to do films on youtube, and I have a lot of good ceramic books to help me, when I have an unanswered question, I need to solve |
| What inspires me | My sorroundings inspire me. I have the moors, the oceans, the wood, the sand and the beach within a 10 minute radius. I find inspiration and tools for my ceramic here. It inspires me to make raku, because it is so unexpected results I get here, and it varies so much in the outcome due to temperatures :-). Food inspires me. I love to serve my food on beautiful plates, in beautiful bowls or jugs, and my man is an excellent cook, who love to serve his homemade food on my homemade ceramics |
| What I'm working on at the moment | I am working on products for food for the moment. I also work on big vases, and I work on slipdecorating first and then layer by layer on glazing when bisquefired
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| My Artist Statement | I don´t know what to write here for the moment :-). Will go back to do it later. |
| My CV | I have been a part of a Gallery in Denmark for the last 3 years. I have been having summer exhibitions in a lighthouse in my home town on and of in my 17 years with ceramics. Always with a fellow artist (photographers, oilpainters, recyclingartists) I have been in different Galleries. I have been part of an art fair in my hometown 6 times. Now I have decided, that I will make what I like and sell by myself, and have the freedom to make what I feel like making. |
