tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63114890221566127232024-03-18T20:54:38.388-07:00EL'S CLAYMy own functional hand built ceramics & sculptures, paintings, collages, etc. as well as visuals & commentary on the world of art & ceramics. Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794851611738574617noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311489022156612723.post-71015200371148058612019-11-06T05:28:00.001-08:002019-11-06T05:29:21.051-08:00Back to Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I got back into the studio in September and have concentrated on bowls. They seem to be the most successful pieces I've made, and I like making them.<br />
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I can build the bowls without much fuss, but it can be hard on my body. The pinching and scraping to make the walls thin is hard on my arms, neck, shoulders, and my hands, too.<br />
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The bigger challenge is the glazing. I continue to be tempted, and I succumb, to experimentation. Hence, mixed results, and re-glazing and re-firing is necessary, or simple abandonment. I have some tried and true combinations, but with all the glazes I have in stock, I seek new combinations.<br />
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The element of surprise when I open the kiln, and the joy when something beautiful has been born is worth the sometimes disappointing results.<br />
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<br />Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794851611738574617noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311489022156612723.post-30076220804211977492019-08-08T06:57:00.003-07:002019-08-08T11:47:22.697-07:00A Big Bowl<br />
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The only thing I have made so far this year is this large bowl. It has primitive life forms, a snake, a lizard and a turtle circling the rim. It is all hand built as usual, and in profile has a wobble in the rim. I intended to enter it in a show, and it came out of the kiln in time to enter it, but I hesitated. Although I was happy with it at first, the wobble and some of the glazing began to look amateurish to me. So it stayed at home.<br />
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I was invited to be the featured artist at the Brigantine Farmer's Market last month, and the bowl was much admired there, but came home with me. All the bowls were praised, and that felt good. Some were sold, but not enough to justify the time and expense of the trip to Brigantine. There were just not enough people passing the tent they had set up for me. I realize I need a bigger venue to sell my wares.<br />
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The home goods store here in Princeton called me. The owner, Kristen, wants to sell my bowls again. The problem is, she wants a wholesale price from me, and to double it for retail. I went to look at what they have in the store now, and the mass produced ceramics they have are quite expensive. Shouldn't my one-of-a-kind pieces be comparable at least? I gave Kristen a price that I could live with and now she says, she's not sure she can sell them for that price if she doubles her cost.<br />
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So I looked up the very big annual holiday show in the next town. It cost $100 to enter, but I get to sell for the retail price and make more money. What is better? Selling cheap to Kristen and letting them do the customer work, or selling them myself? It's a question I am wrestling with now.<br />
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<br />Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794851611738574617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311489022156612723.post-12817369304627281992018-12-11T09:15:00.003-08:002018-12-11T09:15:43.696-08:00What I've Been Up ToI've been making, making, making and forgetting to write or post pictures. This is after all, a record for myself at least, if not for the world. I am one potter among many in this world, even in this town alone. So many crafting, making art that we are jamming up the market it seems.<br />
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I participated in three craft shows that were poorly attended, though I made some sales. Still, I got positive feedback on my work and tips for other shows where it might be well received. Meanwhile, there is one more event for the season and it is at my house:<br />
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Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794851611738574617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311489022156612723.post-23326196731668778992018-05-14T05:48:00.000-07:002018-05-14T05:48:42.918-07:00Tumbling Tumblers!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I returned from a trip to New Mexico and glazed 18 tumblers with a multi-layer process that I had created last year. These had been admired and sold well at the West Windsor craft show and at my open studio.<br />
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Two patterns were used to build the tumblers. One pattern has straight sides and the other tapered. While the clay is still soft, their forms are lightly tapped to give them some character and make them easier to hold.<br />
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In glazing them, I first glaze the inside white but not the outside. The white clay is the white background for the surface treatment.<br />
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I have described the process before in a post, consisting of both opaques and transparent celadon glaze areas, and collaged underglaze transfers.<br />
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This time I played more with color. I made the straight pattern tumblers in shades of blue and black.<br />
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The taller tapered tumblers had three celadon glaze colors, while the shorter just two.<br />
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Of these variations of shape and color, I think I like the blue straight sided tumblers best.<br />
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I have sent photos out to one venue that I heard was interested in carrying local craft items, and not heard back. Some feedback would be nice, but what can I expect? These are not for everyone, and no doubt can be improved on. I enjoy making them and will try to develop and refine the basic design.<br />
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<br />Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794851611738574617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311489022156612723.post-36648511579547116432018-03-13T11:12:00.000-07:002018-03-13T11:12:03.184-07:00Coil Sculpture Pots<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coil Pot 1</td></tr>
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For the past several years I have been mostly doing slab work. The Edgy bowls are rolled slabs first, the cups, plates and plaques also start out as slabs. But when I squeezed a new bag of red clay as I was cleaning the studio, it said to me, "coil."<br />
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I wanted to make sculpture to enter into the upcoming Ellarslie Open, and that's why I'd bought the red clay. It is beautiful without glaze. When I felt the plasticity of the clay through that bag, I stopped in my tracks and began to work immediately.<br />
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What I had in mind was a pot that would have creatures, perhaps mythical, flying out of the surface of the pot. It would be more sculpture than pot, the pot being more a base for the figures.<br />
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I am an eager builder. Like a beaver I want to keep working on my construction until exhaustion sets in. On each pot, the ballooning sides began to sag as I added coils before the lower layers were firm enough. I was going too fast. What I found speeded up the process was to build the pot while the kiln was firing or cooling. That way I didn't have to wait hours in between coils The clay set up quickly and I had the warmth of a beach resort in the middle of February, right in my backyard.<br />
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I built three coil pots in quick succession and added to each sculpted animals. They are predators and prey, and are an expression of the perilousness and fragility of life. We are both predator and prey at different times in our lives, just like other animals. I think of the cat as Donald Trump, and I and my artistic, gentle friends are the fleeing birds. You can see all kinds of metaphors in the relationship of prey and predator, so universal is the meaning.<br />
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I can only enter two sculptures in the Ellarslie show. The decision about which two to enter was made for me when I found on opening the kiln that one pot was cracked.<br />
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Did it crack when I opened the kiln at 400 degrees and propped it open 2 inches? It was down on the bottom with shelves and ware above it. The chill couldn't have gotten down there to do damage, I don't think. Could it be because I forgot to turn on the vent for the entire firing? Or was it going to cone 5 that stressed it out, when the other pots were fired at cone 4 to keep that terracotta color?<br />
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I don't know, and perhaps never will, but I have some epoxy I'm going to fill the crack with. It will be fine.<br />
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I, however, am suffering the consequences of so much clay squeezing and coiling. My left hand has a bad case of carpal tunnel just like my right hand. The right hand was getting better, but I spared it by giving the left hand more work. A lesson learned. Don't take your body for granted by asking it to do marathons of one activity. Now I am on forced break, thinking what to do with 50 pounds of brown hazelnut clay.<br />
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A frenzy of making cups and plates was followed by an equally frenzied glazing of the pieces I intend for the Valentine Pop-Up.<br />
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Why so frenzied when I have plenty of time?<br />
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I think, once I start a project, when I have a goal, I don't want to stop. I want to see the finished work. Will it be wonderful? I always hope so.<br />
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Some of the cups pictured are still being worked on. I plan to continue to layer on glazes to enrich the surfaces. The plates will stay as they are in their candy hues.<br />
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I made these pieces by stamping into the wet clay slabs before building. I used stamps of many kinds: alphabet stamps of different sizes and styles, Indian wood textile stamps, rubber stamps, and also plaster stamps and bisqued stamps that I made myself.<br />
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A fun project for the depths of winter. I'm enjoying the the pastel colors of the celadon glazes, and the warmth of the kiln. I'm so lucky to have this studio and the time to work there. It is truly my saving grace.<br />
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So this is what I've been up to:<br />
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Plates, cups, votives, and tumblers made from porcelain clay have been my January projects. The picture above is of unfired ware - work in progress.<br />
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Each piece has a word or a message stamped into the clay with a variety of rubber stamp alphabets. Other decorative stamps and carvings add to the designs, and each one is different. Is it possible for me to make two pieces alike, ever? I don't think so.<br />
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They are intended as valentine gifts and will be offered for sale at the pop up organized by the Arts Council for Valentine's Day. The Valentine's market will be at the Princeton shopping center on February 9 and February 11.<br />
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More information to follow. And decisions to make on glazing. What will the finished ware look like? I'm eager to experiment. Wish me luck.Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794851611738574617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311489022156612723.post-18732217792730099502017-12-26T17:48:00.001-08:002017-12-26T17:50:07.333-08:00A Message from Raisin Studio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A pop-up store, "Objects of Our Lives," run by two gracious Turkish entrepreneurs has brought a minimalist, artisan crafted esthetic to downtown Princeton.<br />
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Deniz and Guniz Engur hosted a holiday party in the space last night, and as I have met the couple and attended some "Creative-Teas" there, I was on their email list and was invited.<br />
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So, I dressed in my classic Japanese jacket and walked there, hoping to at last have a good look at all their wares and to socialize.<br />
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Creative people, collectors and Turkish expatriates were there, and a long table set with edible delicacies.<br />
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I conversed with an architect, a jeweler and the parent of one of my art students from years ago, while trying not to spill red wine on my jacket. I did anyway. Fortunately, it is a tie-dyed pattern with reds and browns - it will blend right in.<br />
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Nevertheless, these are some of the pieces that I admired in the store. An invitation extended to me by the jeweler to a show of her work along with that of a ceramic artist's promises to provide more impressions or fodder to inspire next year's work in Raisin <span style="text-align: center;">studio.</span>Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794851611738574617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311489022156612723.post-4948625853572254792017-12-10T19:13:00.001-08:002017-12-14T04:30:08.611-08:00Weekend High in Raisin Studio<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TV5APtljtiuDBmtmuA2eGJAGaN77OZ3_AYVRXpiRID0-V0bNsy6XFM59B-sSvg6Boh1jGy2DnhxA8Ogu_703-OSNOD1TSI1G5L5rd72NTi8JJ1MIaT-5bGgdt7z9QbVCsD9k0j_f0-Y3/s1600/fullsizeoutput_2fb3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="964" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TV5APtljtiuDBmtmuA2eGJAGaN77OZ3_AYVRXpiRID0-V0bNsy6XFM59B-sSvg6Boh1jGy2DnhxA8Ogu_703-OSNOD1TSI1G5L5rd72NTi8JJ1MIaT-5bGgdt7z9QbVCsD9k0j_f0-Y3/s400/fullsizeoutput_2fb3.jpeg" width="240" /></a><br />
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Saturday the second day of December I opened my studio as a gallery. There were old and new ceramics - some early pieces from our basement in 2008 were there as well as the latest Edgy bowls and plates.<br />
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My sister came down from Brooklyn to help. She stayed in the back room, the shed actually, but transformed into a wrapping station and there she bubble wrapped and bagged. She was kept pretty busy because people came and people bought.<br />
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This took me by surprise. Previous "Open Studios" were not so well attended, but signs, press releases, an email blast, postcards tacked up or handed out, all must have helped to make this one a successful sale.<br />
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Neighbors, friends, passing strangers kept coming and all, seriously, all of them were kindness itself. They commented on the garden, the studio and my work in such positive terms, I was more than pleased.<br />
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And the next day the same. Two wonderful days, I'd say two days that were among the best of my life. I felt loved. Not really, literally loved, but the sum of all those people being so nice, it was like love. My heart was full. I am grateful.<br />
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I have had great pleasure transforming my studio into a display space for my clay pieces this week, so I was dismayed by a letter from the Municipality today, two days before I was to have the Open Studio that read:<br />
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<i>Thank you for the communication from Mr. ----. I had no idea my activities were illegal. I have a small studio where I primarily spend time to occupy myself since I am on disability with Parkinson Disease. It gives me a purpose and I choose to do it also for the therapeutic value for my hands and for general wellness. If I can sell what I make I can pay for what materials I need. </i></h2>
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These porcelain votive candle holders are more quirkiness from the Edgy bowl creator.<br />
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That creaminess gives the votives a lovely buttery yellow glow when a candle is lit inside.<br />
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The bottoms were dipped in silvery metallic glaze. Most of the 18 that I made have drips running up the sides (they were fired upside down).<br />
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The Edgy family now consists of bowls, sushi and tapas plates, and now votives. I love those edges.<br />
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Examples of all of new and old work will be for display and sale at Raisin Studio where El's Clay plies her trade. Three shelves of $10 ceramics and many in the 20-30 dollar range are priced to sell to clear the studio for New Work.<br />
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Come one come all - to El's Open Studio Dec 2-3, 10-5:00 138 John St., Princeotn NJElhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794851611738574617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311489022156612723.post-43932770474562398492017-11-11T05:24:00.003-08:002017-11-11T05:24:19.771-08:00Artisan Market 2017I am ready to take my new wares to market. I have over 80 pieces priced and packed waiting to go.<br />
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You would think by October there might be an end to garden exuberance, but not at Chanticleer in Wayne, Pennsylvania on the the 18th of October.<br />
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The weather was glorious, the slanting light of autumn perfect for photography and everywhere I looked there was color and creativity; nature and humanity in partnership to create perfect wonder.<br />
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We began our own tour of the garden in the area around the house, the most obvious place to begin.<br />
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At one end of the house there is a porch with a fireplace, two rocking chairs and a view down the hillside to the more wild areas of the garden (top).<br />
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At the rear of the house are two cabanas flanking a rectangular swimming pool. Between the pool and the house a wild, grassy area was planted with a casual scattering of orange dahlias, tall stemmed purple verbena and other sun loving flowers.</div>
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There is water to be found in many places. This little stream is at the end of a series of stepped ponds. The leaves and flower pods from lotus plants, and friendly carp live in the pond just above it. The carp swam over to us, lifting their whiskered lips to the surface, no doubt seeking a handout.<br />
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A variety of sculptural water fountains provide refreshment for body and soul as we meander through the garden.<br />
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Here a rock bowl makes a tiny pool for some water loving plants. This mossy nook is on one of the many side paths that coax one to wander off the main ones.<br />
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There are both wide open wide lawns and thick wooded areas at Chanticleer, giving the contrasts of bright or dappled light, and hot sun or cool shade.<br />
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If interested, you can learn the names of the plants growing in the various habitats. This box has a style suited to its woodland location.<br />
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I was satisfied with just observing and appreciating the plants I saw, or speculating about them. Was this a hydrangea? Probably, but one I had never seen before.<br />
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My companion checked out a plant list for this rock garden and discovered it to be a thick booklet with photographs of hundreds of plants.<br />
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Very enjoyable for me were the many man made features along the way, such as this little hut, painted on the inside with animals and tree branches or this carved wooden foot bridge.<br />
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"The Ruins" are partial stone walls and chimneys artfully landscaped and also loaded with art, such as these stone messages, and five large and impassive stone heads in a fountain.<br />
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My favorite man made feature was this bridge, a most unusual design, made of wood and metal.<br />
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Plants are incorporated into the design with a moss garden atop one side, and more plants in a low round window, and along the floor.<br />
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Chanticleer Garden is a spectacular place to visit. I have left much for you to discover yourself. I for one will be back, to see it in other seasons.<br />
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If in October, when flowers everywhere else are mostly just chrysanthemums and asters, there was still so much color and interest at Chanticleer...<br />
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September was mostly a travel month, but during that time I signed on to the Artisan's Marketplace craft show at the West Windsor Arts Council for November. Then I decided to commit to a December open studio weekend, ordering postcards, signs and a banner for my own personal show in the studio.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It turns out I am spending a lot of time there. Just before the change of the calendar page from September to October, I was in the studio again and working with the last of the brown clay, my favorite for Edgy pieces, then moving on to terracotta for square plates and trays.</span><br />
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As mid October approaches, I have fired the terracotta and am making tumblers with white clay. At the same time, I have been delving into my store of Hazelnut clay, and with that lovely, smooth clay, I have made one plate a day and what I call a platter every few days.<br />
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So rather than be silent in this blog and appearing to be doing nothing,<i> au contraire</i>! I'm in hyper mode, and enjoying it too when I'm not fretting about my deadlines.<br />
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The studio is the best in the summer. With the doors and window open, the garden with birds splashing in the bird baths, the ceiling fan whirling, it is my favorite place to be. The garden might have that title but for the hordes of mosquitos patrolling the area, a result of a wet summer.<br />
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I have had joy and sorrow this summer in the studio. There have been glaze problems - blistering mainly - that I have had to do detective work to solve. I think I may have - the last two kiln firings were successful.<br />
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Experimentation is my reason for living. Not satisfied with just Edgy Bowls, I have been making what I call Half Edgy Platters, plates with uneven edges on two sides and round on the other two.<br />
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Also new are Princeton Edgy Dishes which are small footed dishes with "Princeton, NJ" scrawled underneath (for the Princeton tourist with not much luggage space).<br />
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Glazing which was once a hurry up and get done operation has become as important and exciting to me as the making of the clay pieces.<br />
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I have so many glazes though, that I am overwhelmed with choices, and it's impossible to test all the possible glaze combinations. I take chances, often they work, and if not, they get reglazed and fired again.<br />
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Salt cellars for the Savory Spice Shop are waiting for some reorganization at the shop to be delivered.<br />
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Meanwhile, all of these and the other pieces pictured here are available to anyone interested. Email me for more information.<br />
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<br />Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794851611738574617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311489022156612723.post-21302378634540147272017-07-13T07:11:00.000-07:002017-07-13T07:11:07.053-07:00Travel SketchbookFor travel I have made it a habit to bring with me a small sketchbook, mini colored pencils, and markers and other drawing tools, and when time allows, capture a place or person in its pages. Words find their way in too, when I come across a poem or quotation that speaks to me in the moment.<br />
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This year so far has found me traveling more than usual. I take photographs, but my sketchbook is a more personal response to the world. I know the world all the better for the extended, intense looking that is needed to make a sketch.<br />
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So here are a selection, in date order of my travels so far in 2017.<br />
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Where to next? Vermont, New Hampshire, Cape Cod are on my calendar - more opportunities to study trees, waves, people and all the other challenging subjects. I can't draw every leaf, the wave will not hold still to be drawn, and each person has their own individual features. I must miniaturize and simplify. The challenges of drawing are many and the sketchbook is a learning tool. The sketches are that, and they are also a souvenir for me of pleasant day beyond my "little world."<br />
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It was a long, hot day in D.C., but inside two art museums it was very cool and often thrilling.<br />
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Yet more from the Hirshhorn. I have to say, my senses did NOT thrill to this next exhibit, maybe because I'd just seen so much already that was so intriguing (see the last post). Yet I think it is worth showing a few examples of work from 50 years ago by Berlin artist Markus Lupertz.<br />
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Take the first painting you see at the exhibit, called "Donald Duck's Wedding" (detail) from 1963. What do you make of it?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Westwall (Siegfried Line), by Markus Lupertz, 1968</td></tr>
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I know I did not give it the time it deserved. There is beauty here, even a message in some paintings, but at the time I was in visual overload. Yet I forged ahead, saw work from the permanent collection at the Hirshhorn, and after a break for lunch, headed for the East Building of the National Gallery of Art.<br />
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Here are the "Masterworks" from the Hirshhorn that peaked my interest:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Venus of the Rags, by Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1967</td></tr>
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The artwork above is a conceptual piece. Very large, it conveys the immensity of the sky and the length of the long walk the artist has taken. It is one of a series of artworks about the artist's walks, this one being, " ALL THE PACES BETWEEN MOONRISE AND MOONSET."<br />
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I think the East Building of the National Gallery of Art is an exhausting place. It is a multi-level building designed by I.M. Pei. The stairs, towers, lack of seating were not conducive to a late afternoon visit for me. Go yourself, but go when you are fresh.<br />
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The sculpture here and the sculpture at the top of the page were the best moments at the National for me.<br />
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Everyone who saw it, while I was lingering on the rooftop, loved this bird.<br />
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My last words are not really art related, but patriotic. I felt proud that our country has erected, collected art and artifacts and staffed these fine museums and made them free to the public.<br />
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Happy 4th of July everyone!<br />
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The Hirshhorn Museum is a free museum of art on the mall in Washington D.C. and inside that round building on concrete curving legs I saw some amazing art. I loved it!<br />
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The building is actually donut-shaped because the center is open. Outside at ground level there is a fountain in the center. So of course most of the walls curve. The artwork can potentially relate to the circularity, and that is what one sees in the current exhibits at the Hirshhorn.<br />
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Two exhibits not only relate to the encircling walls, but in one case the art is painted and in the other drawn directly on the wall.<br />
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Linn Meyers drew large scale, graceful, very linear drawings that suggest bird feathers, water, or air. Whatever they suggest to you, in any case, they flow beautifully.<br />
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I don't know what tool she used to draw with, I see some evidence of underlining with pencil, but it looks like brush or marker and black ink. The lines are parallel, but grow closer and more distant creating ripples and a feeling of movement. The drawings are elegant and evocative.<br />
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The second artist who worked directly on the wall was the Swiss artist Nicolas Party. Quite different from Meyers, Party's paintings are representational, yet clearly imaginary landscapes.<br />
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Called "sunrise, sunset," the exhibit has paintings which show sky, with sun or without, in the colorful time at the beginning or end of day. Each section of wall is painted a different background color before the paintings were executed.<br />
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Smaller paintings near the entrance give way to larger ones at the opposite end and return again to small scale as you round the turn.<br />
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There are Seuss-like trees, Miro-like boulders and cloud shapes, simple shapes, making up wonderfully imagined and colorful scenes from the arctic to the tropics.<br />
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A candy shop of color really, a happy world, but with no people, and if I remember no sign of any. The lack of animal and human life gives them an otherworldly feeling. Where are we? Is this another planet? It almost seems so.<br />
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Perhaps it is an expression of the artist's personality. Is he a quiet, reclusive type, I wonder?<br />
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Barbara Kruger's contrastingly brash exhibit of statements, equations or questions in block letters was also directly applied to walls, and the floor as well, but her room, at the underground level of the Hirshhorn, had flat walls. Every surface was plastered with words.<br />
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I have seen her work in other places over the years and always am titillated and provoked, and enjoy her blunt and blaring messages. I bought her postcards and a refrigerator magnet at the museum store - her work translates so well to those formats, which in her case, is not an insult.<br />
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Finally, we come to Ai Weiwei, the famous Chinese dissident artist. Come to think of it, he used the wall too, with this incredible, graphically sharp wallpaper, part of the exhibit called, oh so cryptically, "Looks Like a Llama but it's Really an Alpaca."<br />
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Part of the exhibit's wallpaper was black and white and part a golden version, but each contained the same imagery. Can you see the motifs? <br />
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The theme is political prisoners, something Ai Weiwei knows about first hand. He is restricted from traveling out of China, his phone is tapped and he is routinely followed by police. He has been jailed, all for expressing his views and making art that is offensive to the government.<br />
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On the floor are murals made out of legos depicting political prisoners around the world.<br />
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Yes, legos. Why legos? He explains in a video in the the last room of the exhibit that he chooses, as often as he can, materials that anyone could use.<br />
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There are room after room of the lego images that use the colors of the flag of the prisoner's country. Some are large images, and some only a couple of feet in size. Along with the wallpaper showing surveillance cameras, handcuffs, chains and Twitter birds (Twitter as the communication tool important to the cause), Ai Weiwei seeks to make the world aware of the magnitude in number and scope of prisoners who have been jailed for expressing themselves.<br />
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Washington D.C. is the best place to have this displayed, he said. May the world take note.<br />
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My day of art in Washington, D.C. is to be continued...<br />
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Today a reporter from the local free monthly newspaper, <i>The Echo</i>, came to call. I had him meet me in the studio where I was working on a new series of<i> Edgy Bowls. </i>We talked while I worked, he taking notes sometimes, listening intently, and asking questions while his cell phone recorded the interview.<br />
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Typical of me, when someone shows interest, I told him everything. My whole life poured out. After all, I write 2 blogs, keep a daily journal, and tell all twice a month to my two co-counselors, so I am inclined to expose myself. I am quiet and withdrawn by nature, but to talk or write about myself is nevertheless, one of my means of expression.<br />
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He was very interested in my Parkinson's Disease, which I have not written about in this blog, and maybe it could have been avoided. However it is a factor in why I built a clay studio and why I do clay at all.<br />
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I told details of my life story that are sensitive, so he asked me what, if anything, I would like for him not to include in the article. I asked him to not mention just one life event.<br />
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After he left, I had my husband take some shots of me in the studio for the article, as we were asked to do. They are staged. I work on the other side of the table normally, but the garden background I thought nicer than my shelving with buckets, cans, and sponges. One has to be chosen to go with the text. Which shall it be? These are my picks. I'll let him choose and crop as well.<br />
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I'll post the article here when it's published. For now, here I am in my favorite setting: Raisin Studio.<br />
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http://mercerspace.com/2017/06/27/inside-potter-elisa-hirvonens-little-world/<br />
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Now that it is May there are distractions on the way to the studio. There is a garden surrounding it that I planted and care for.<br />
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A bench I made out of a cast iron grate is along the path to the studio. It is in a sunny spot by the honeysuckle trellis. It calls me sometimes to quietly meditate or gaze.<br />
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Along the way I see sudden spurts of growth, struggling young plants pleading for attention, flowers about to bloom, and flowers fully formed.<br />
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I have drawn the composition and nature has painted it. That is how I feel a garden is created.<br />
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The sketching is ongoing - the rearrangement of plants, the new additions, lifting established plants to divide and propagate them, and planting the divisions elsewhere in the garden.<br />
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Thern the nurturing - the feeding, the watering, the weeding. It takes time and everyday, almost everyday, I do some caring for the garden.<br />
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Even many of the stones that make the walls for the raised beds or stepping stones for the paths are my work. They are all in flux too, and can change from season to season.<br />
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A garden is an ongoing process. It is a place that centers me, replenishes me, though sometimes in spring or fall when there is so much to do, it exhausts me. <br />
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From the studio, when I finally get there, I have the view of my garden. I work with its peaceful and intimate beauty before my eyes. I know every plant, every stone, every tree in the garden. We are in harmony.<br />
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Being a sell out means going the commercial route, making things for the marketplace - if you're a certain kind of artist, maybe like some of those I saw at the Whitney Museum Biennial recently. But I, with my clay, am happy to make pieces people will buy for themselves or someone else to use or to display. I want people to like my work and think it's beautiful. Beauty is not a requirement to be in the Whitney biennial.<br />
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In this post are some of my attempts at creating beauty and pleasing others.<br />
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Here is a little bowl I made for a couple getting married. I call it a "sharing bowl"<br />
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The store put them in a prominent place, at least now that they are a new item there. Good luck to ye bowls. Go out and find good homes.<br />
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<br />Elhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794851611738574617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311489022156612723.post-43597532120340431112017-03-14T07:51:00.000-07:002017-03-14T07:51:11.960-07:00A Little More Art in Iceland<br />
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Strolling the streets of Reykjavik you will come upon galleries, stores, places of historical or cultural interest, and plenty of tourist shops featuring everything "Viking" that you could desire. It's your choice, but to buy anything you must forget your penny pinching. Iceland is expensive!<br />
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I let myself purchase only one item, and thereafter could only look longingly at the ceramics and woolens without buying because my krona to dollar app told me, "Nay."<br />
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My one splurge was a linen table runner, an item I knew I would use and enjoy as a remembrance of my visit to Iceland. It was designed in Iceland, but I wondered, was it <i>made </i>in Iceland? I asked, and indeed, it was not, but made in Finland. Good enough.<br />
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There is some interesting architecture to be seen in Reykjavik, but not very much that is older than the 19th century. Reykjavik's progress into the society of travel worthy world capitals is a very recent one.<br />
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One example of modern architecture is Harpa, a jewel-like theater and cultural center by the harbor. At night, colored lights flash across its outer walls like the lights of the aurora borealis. </div>
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The church named after poet and writer of hymns, Hallsgrimur Petersson, Hallsgrimskirkja is a landmark one can see from afar, perched on a high point in the city center. Its design by Gudjon Samuelsson was controversial at first. It was 41 years in the making, finished in 1986, and now its concrete structure is in the process of restoration.<br />
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I saw ceramics for sale in all the museum and tourist shops as well as galleries. Here are but a few by ceramicist Olof Saemundsdottir at the Stigur gallery.<br />
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These bowls were quite large, perhaps 12 inches in diameter, the cups much smaller, all with a variety of glazes, but almost all with a white tint to them. There is something about white that appeals to the Nordic esthetic. I wonder why?</div>
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There is much more art to see in Iceland, but I and my group of explorers were keen to see the country, bask in hot springs and ride the Icelandic horses. But if you don't have our luck with the weather (sunny for 6 days straight) you can spend more time with the art of Iceland.<br />
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The Asmundarsafn Museum is one of three buildings, along with the Kjarvalsstadir which I wrote about in my last post, that make up the Reykjavik Art Museum. It is the former home and studio of sculptor Asmundur Sveinsson.<br />
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The building was designed by the artist. Two truncated pyramids flank the entrance, at the center is the dome and at the rear, now joined to the rest of the building, but once separate, is a crescent shaped room with skylights. He was inspired to use the dome form by the villas of Greece, a country that like Iceland, lacks trees, so does not use wood extensively in its buildings. The pyramids he said, were inspired by ancient Egypt, and the crescent shape a practical solution to store his materials at the rear.</div>
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This charming lamp, one of a pair, lights steps inside the entry hall. It is an example of Asmundur's early sculpture. More figurative stone sculptures can be seen on the grounds of the museum. At the time I was there, they were blanketed in snow, so I confined my visit to the indoor spaces.<br />
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Two crescent-shaped rooms made wonderful light filled gallery spaces for the sculptors later work. Abstract sculptures in cast metal and also sculptural assemblages of metal rods and wire occupied plinths on the marble floor.<br />
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On the walls drawings and collages by the artist were equally interesting to me. Some appear to be working sketches with pencil underdrawings clearly visible under ink and paint.<br />
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Looking at the sculpture of the blacksmith above, and then at the sculptures in the following photographs, one can see the progression of <span style="text-align: right;">Asmundur's work from blocky semi-realistic figures to pure abstraction. In his work we see the big changes that occurred in western art in the 20th century.</span><br />
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The country of Iceland has a captivating landscape. I marveled at its beauty as we drove southeast on Route 1 out of Reykjavik. Its mountains, lava fields, waterfalls, glaciers and steaming waters thick with minerals, were exotic compared to my home in New Jersey. There perhaps lies the inspiration for artists of Iceland, but only partially. I saw art inspired by family life, Icelandic myths and fantasy in addition to landscapes.<br />
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Two small museums offered a glimpse at two of the most famous artists. Named after painter Johannes S. Karval (1885-1972), the Kjarvalsstadir Museum had only two exhibit spaces: one with Karval's paintings and another for contemporary exhibits. In this post, I will share what I saw at this one museum.<br />
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In Iceland the traditional belief is that supernatural creatures inhabit wild places especially around the abundant boulders scattered everywhere. These creatures can be a nuisance to humans if they are disturbed. These elves appear rather ominous and aloof - I would not mess with them.</div>
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Faces and figures painted with ethereal contour lines tell stories that might be familiar to an Icelander, but suggest unknown mysteries to me.<br />
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Landscapes depicted the spectacular natural areas in Iceland. This snow covered mountain looks like the scenes we saw in late February and early March.<br />
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And this lava field with the rugged mountains and what appears to be a glacier beyond it, is typical of Iceland's terrain.<br />
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This painting shows a bit of the Unesco World Heritage site Pingvellir, an area of deep chasms and a vast plain still actively being formed by the movement of the earth's tectonic plates. Here is where the early government of Iceland was formed, outside against the amphitheater-like cliff walls.</div>
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Here I am with a lovely painting of rocks and lichen, so you can see, the landscapes are often quite large. If you look closely, can you see elves? There must be some magical creatures hidden in this richly textured canvas.<br />
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I love the glimpse of a white glacier beyond the far mountains.<br />
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Karval is a beloved painter of Iceland who in return loved his country. He was the artist who awoke and educated the average, reserved and stoic Icelander to the mysteries of art with paintings of subjects they could relate to. Finding the words to explain art was not easy for him, he said - he probably had the same struggle with shyness that is a cultural trait for many Icelander - but he succeeded. Now Iceland is a country where art is widely seen in galleries, museums and even tourist shops . </div>
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