Details
| First Name | Stephanie |
| Last Name | Mahl |
| Nickname | stepsfanie |
My Ceramics
| In the studio I like to do | Handbuilding, Sculpting |
| Pottery Wheel | Maschinenbau Lindemann, a very small German brand |
| Clay body | Earthenware, Stoneware |
| Clay Brand | Solargil, Witger, not sure were my supplier all gets from |
| Kiln Type | Electric Kiln |
| Kiln Atmosphere | Oxidation Atmosphere |
| Temperature | Usually 1150 – 1250°C |
| Glaze | Amaco PC, Celadon, SH, Shino, some Botz, underglaze from this watercolor like pods (Maico?) |
| You can buy my work from | At the moment only directly by asking me ???? |
About Me
| Introduction | Although I have worked with clay over the years and have learned a lot about pottery, I am now really starting into ceramics. I have many many ideas in my head collected over all the years of being a (more than ) full-time mother of two (on my own) and daughter of care needing parents. My interest are plenty. My heart goes for little statues of children of war. I am an grandchild of war in the sense of being traumatized in the second generation of the WW II and my father was a fighter for peace his whole life. |
| My Artist Statement | “Moist clay, walked and well kneaded, malleable to vessels, idols, reliefs and hollow bodies, which air-dried shrink a little, become smaller again in pottery ovens and come to other colours in high heat: brick-red, ochre-yellow, peat-black. Clay, as it is found in many places, has been serviceable to the oldest craftsmanship since immemorial time and bears witness – as a whole or in shards – of the beginnings of every culture. Should one, meanwhile imaginable day, the fossil fuels are being depleted, the electricity be switched off and with them the technology be at the end, clay will once again help to form pots with idols to summon spirits and to give hollow bodies in animal and human form a face. As fragile as terracotta – burnt earth – is, it outlasts us and will continue to give testimony of man.” From “Burned Earth” by Günter Grass |
