| Introduction |
I was born in Riga, Latvia to Ukrainian parents. Lived in Ukraine, then moved with family to Germany and at 16 I went to England to learn the language… ended up meeting my husband here, together with our 2 daughters we lived in Spain for 9 years and are now back in the Uk once again.
Currently I make sculptural pieces, small in porcelain and larger in stoneware. Also throwing on a miniature potters wheel ( fun!)
Interested in finding out what I make next and where it’ll take me.
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| What I Love about Ceramics |
Ceramics is my first love and it has not faded ever and I really hope it never does!
I love the texture of clay, my favorite is the leather hard stage- kind of finished but you can still alter it- I love the sheen of the surface. Hand building is probably my go to but I also enjoy throwing sometimes, meditative action is very soothing.
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| How I started with ceramics |
I first found clay on the river bank while on a camping family holiday when I was 5/6 years old, it was near Chernobyl and a year before the place became what it did. I made a duck, live size and of course it never got fired. I never got to see clay again for years. I did find Fimo when I was 12 and loved making small animals until I moved to England where eventually I joined college and did a C&G course in Art, Design and Ceramics.
I studied for about 6 years and during that time managed to set up my own home studio. I had exhibited and had commissions but it’s always because I’m dragged into it rather than my own initiative- I’m a bit of a chicken.
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| What inspires me |
I love sculpture, the human face in particular. Some people’s faces as I walk past them on the street fascinate me and I want to take a picture ( but don’t obv). Hands are a close second.
Repeat pattern and ornament, surfaces covered in texture, particularly dots or stripes.
Mystical creatures, part human part animal.
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| What I'm working on at the moment |
I’m working on my mindset. I find it extremely difficult to put myself out there. I know people like what I make but I’m blocked probably by fear…. Hoping to change that very soon.
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| My CV |
2003 City&Guilds Art, Design & Ceramics 7900, highly commended Certification
2003 Blue Rooms competition winner
2010 artist/designer in residence at the Imperial Porcelain Factory, st Petersburg Russia.
2011 exhibition View from 4 Sides, National Applied Arts Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 artist/designer in residence at the Imperial Porcelain Factory, st Petersburg Russia.
2013 Art Pleada exhibition, Nice, France
2012-2013 Arca Estudio de Arte, Calp, Spain
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