Nature fulfills you!
That is what inspires me when I create my vessels. Nature and its impact on us human beings. When I’m working with the clay body, creating the shape of the vessel, I’m inspired by my walks in nature.
I have spent several years in the forest in the south of Norway. Being breathtaken by all the natural art that is out there. The surface of a cliff, covered by moss, and again covered with fungus, creates a wonderful artwork for us all to take in and be fulfilled by.
I’m also fascinated by the way nature always changes. Layers can be ripped off by a landslide, a rainfall, snow masses or animals having a feast. The artwork in nature changes, and often to the better, or to something totally different. Thats a mechanism that I love to experience and that I also try to create in my own artwork. The dry glazes that I often use on my vessels, will in some degree fall off the clay body. This I am not afraid of happening, it makes the art piece more interesting and fulfilling and more up to what’s going on in nature itself.
I find this natural process of layering that becomes the most beautiful artwork very inspiring and it’s a process that I try to take with me in life as a reminder. That life is in a constant change, and still beautiful with it's countless layers. I'm choosing to interpret this layers as life experience. A natural parallel to natures structural wonders, will be the humans being born and then in time grow old. We get more wisdom and beauty as time goes by.
I love the word ”embrace”. Just like nature get more beautiful by aging and changing, we should embrace our age. I find lines that have been made over time so beautiful and mindful. The line can be in a face of an elderly man or a woman, it can be marks on a dining table, or it can be texture in nature. The lines all have their own story to tell and it tells us about our history. We are constantly changing, and with change there will be development. We should embrace that development.
I would like to share some photos with you from some of my hikes, so you can better understand where I get my inspiration from.
That is what inspires me when I create my vessels. Nature and its impact on us human beings. When I’m working with the clay body, creating the shape of the vessel, I’m inspired by my walks in nature.
I have spent several years in the forest in the south of Norway. Being breathtaken by all the natural art that is out there. The surface of a cliff, covered by moss, and again covered with fungus, creates a wonderful artwork for us all to take in and be fulfilled by.
I’m also fascinated by the way nature always changes. Layers can be ripped off by a landslide, a rainfall, snow masses or animals having a feast. The artwork in nature changes, and often to the better, or to something totally different. Thats a mechanism that I love to experience and that I also try to create in my own artwork. The dry glazes that I often use on my vessels, will in some degree fall off the clay body. This I am not afraid of happening, it makes the art piece more interesting and fulfilling and more up to what’s going on in nature itself.
I find this natural process of layering that becomes the most beautiful artwork very inspiring and it’s a process that I try to take with me in life as a reminder. That life is in a constant change, and still beautiful with it's countless layers. I'm choosing to interpret this layers as life experience. A natural parallel to natures structural wonders, will be the humans being born and then in time grow old. We get more wisdom and beauty as time goes by.
I love the word ”embrace”. Just like nature get more beautiful by aging and changing, we should embrace our age. I find lines that have been made over time so beautiful and mindful. The line can be in a face of an elderly man or a woman, it can be marks on a dining table, or it can be texture in nature. The lines all have their own story to tell and it tells us about our history. We are constantly changing, and with change there will be development. We should embrace that development.
I would like to share some photos with you from some of my hikes, so you can better understand where I get my inspiration from.
