Description: Norwegian handcrafted ceramics, made by Turid Haye
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I live by the ocean and find my inspiration in this uneasy element and its eternal motion. The flow of nature is seen along a distant horizon, in the meeting of the sea and the land, and in the water streaming past stones in the sand.
My work is an enquiry into formal relationships, as seen in clearly defined forms such as boxes, vessels, tiles and tablets, all of which are archaic shapes in the history of clay. I organize various visual techniques on the clay surface to create contrast, tension and interplay among planes, curves, volume and form. To capture the flows and eddies of nature within the simplicity of form is an ongoing conversation between the strength and vulnerability of the material and my personal artistic goals.
My ceramic objects are hand built and sculpted in porcelain or stoneware or in a mix of the two. I use various building and forming methods such as slabs, coiling, press moulding and pinching. The clay surface is treated with various oxides, colour slips, wax resist, imprints or sgraffito. I sometimes burnish parts of the surface with a smooth stone. When dry, the pieces are bisque fired to 800°C, then sanded and partly glazed before they are fired again to 1260°C. It is a long and slow process, and every p