| Introduction |
Hello! I am Ayşe from Istanbul. I hand build lamps, pots, vessels, boxes and whatever else that comes to my mind using coils, slabs, free forms. I am horrible at glazing.
I am interested in everything as I haven’t found my niche yet 🙂 And possibly, I never will. I think I might like some carving although I have not yet tried it.
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| What I Love about Ceramics |
I love to get my hands into clay. I love the backache get from stooping over the counter for hours.
I love having something tangible as a result of my efforts. And I love that it may turn out the way I wanted, better or worse, or get destroyed in the process. I love how I do not have any dominion over it.
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| How I started with ceramics |
My kids and I started going to ceramics classes three years ago in Datça where we spend our summers. Since then, we have been summer ceramicists only 🙂 This year, because of the pandemic, we have stayed in Datça longer than usual which allowed me to get more involved with ceramics.
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| What inspires me |
I am inspired by any kind of shape and form. Not so much by colors as I am horrible at glazing.
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| What I'm working on at the moment |
There are so many ideas floating about in my head that I usually do not know what I will do until the last minute.
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| My Artist Statement |
I’d like to create pieces that have some unexpected twist but I have neither time, experience, talent nor knowledge to do that. So I make whatever I feel like making, hoping that at least one person will like it.
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| My CV |
I haven’t studied arts. I studied industrial engineering years ago and now, at 42 years of age, I am studying English Language Teaching.
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