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First Name

Elisa

Last Name

Heimo

Nickname

eheimo

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About Me

Introduction

I’m geeking out about the Ceramics Congress. Porcelain clay with paper and flax, complex structures, whiteness, digging up own clay, mathematics with organic patterns – glocal producing (global and local. Paimio, Finland based) – all sorts of goodness intrigues me!

And having fun.  Am a creative sort, so creating is my main aim, what ever means and output it takes. Core messages rule!

Looking forward to connecting.

🙂 Thanks for having me.

<3 Elisa

What I Love about Ceramics

I love a the feel of it. The texture. I guess that’s why I love porcelain. It’s sort of a dance with hands for me.

How I started with ceramics

I went to art school for a year in 2002 and really enjoyed our ceramics courses.

What inspires me

All sorts. Dance and movement. Singing. Design. Art. Ghibli. Rothko. Van Gogh. The Sun by Olafur Eliasson Architecture. Aalto.

Ceramics as a good quality design for daily use – Iittala, Pentik.

Organic, well made patterns – William Morris

Advertising – The beatle

Ecology – Sustainability

What I'm working on at the moment

Creating a design for a plate – decorating with local farm goods: bees, blueberries, honey, strawberries etc.

My Artist Statement

I create from the inside out. I usually have a clear impulse about what I want to accomplish, and the materials, form, techniques unfold all from that core insight. I work towards allowing info for those techniques to reach me. Then I arrive at maximum satisfaction, have fun along the way and others enjoy my unique products that are always multi-layered in meaning and connections.

In between, there’s often room for playfulness and delight in the spontaneity and discovery.

I am the connecting part in all of my projects that range from economics to ceramics to photography to design, to writing to food producing… (yet to be uncovered) It is important to create what I want than to stay in specific boundaries of one single discipline.

My CV

Aalto University current. Studies in strategy, leadership, social impact, philosophy of humanity 2017 –

Photography – Helsinki Design School

BA Graphic Design – 2006 – University for Creative Arts, Maidstone, Kent

Studies in Marketing, Communications – 1999-2003 Helsinki Business School

Art – 2003 Västra Nyland’s folkhögskola

Putnam City high school, exchange student year – 1997 USA

International Kinderkarten – 1884 – Saudi-Arabia

Born in Finland

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Upcoming exhibition in central church in Finland: Dance of Joy and Light – solo Photography show

Producer of organic Blueberries and Honey in the happiest country in the world, Finland (consecutive for 5 years)

Own start-up Heimo Creations – helping people create and move freely, digital education to come.

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