selected for the Gold Coast International Ceramic Award 2010

a Waterlily in Australia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    from 21 August -17 October 2010

Argillà 2010

I'm happy and proud to have one of my pictures (where a beautiful girl lingers absorbed at my stand at Argillà 2008) on the homepage of Argillà 2010. I'm also happy and proud to be partecipating once more; in september this year.

un Omaggio a Deruta

 Detail from a bowl created as an homage to the great ceramic history of the city of Deruta. A Peacock Feather motive on a Deruta bowl from the sixteenth century (inspired by Persian designs) is proposed as paper-like porcelain.

The exhibition "un Omaggio a Deruta" will be at the "Centro d’Arte e Cultura Torre Strozzi", an ancient medieval  structure  from the thirteenth century in Parlesca, small village near Perugia (Italy).

From 9 May until 9 June 2010.

about my work

    Schnuppe Von Gwinner wrote about my work:

Margrieta Jeltema's Werke aus Porzellan führen das Material definitiv an seine Grenzen. Die Objekte entstehen in Anlehnung an Papiermodelle, von denen sie sie sich immer mehr entfernen um etwas ganz Eigenes zu werden. Sie können Schalen sein, aber auch Blüten oder eine hohle Hand. Formen verweben sich mit Bedeutungen und Assoziationen, die ganz individuell beim Betrachter entstehen - gleich nachdem das Erstaunen über die Zartheit von wahrer Entdeckerfreude abgelöst wird. So ausgebeult, zerknittert, ausgefranst leugnet sich das Porzellan. Es täuscht Flexibilität und Weichheit vor - erst wenn man es berührt verschwindet diese Illusion. Das Vexierspiel findet hier seinen Höhepunkt, poetisch und inpirierend.

Grimmerhus Museum Denmark

Waterlilies and Folded Love Letters in Denmark

"Paperficial" exhibition in Hamburg

 

this and more can been seen at the

"Paperficial" exhibition in Hamburg 

organized by  Schnuppe von Gwinner at the 

craft2eu Gallery

From 10. March to 08. May 2010
Mon to Fr 12am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm

pinched bowls

Bowls made from stoneware.

As I often use stoneware to make the forms in wich I fire my larger porcelain bowls, that would slump otherwise, sometimes I like to transform it into forms that stand on their own...; like these three bowls. They have a paperlike pattern on the outside and a velvet light-turquoise glaze within.
h. 5 cm. - 17 cm.

some inspirations

Dreaming of spring..or just wanting to make pictures,

while everything outside is grey and misty and cold...? 

I tried to capture the soft silken texture of the petals..
a soft shine I could wish as a porcelain glaze...
Usually I put my pictures here or here, 
but it is nice to mix everything up sometimes

I'm always curious to see new results,
new possibilities; and then, 
sometimes unexpectedly, 
patterns emerge!

corsi di ceramica in Faenza

I'm happy to put here the links sent to me by the very talented and sweet Antonella Cimatti  about the new courses that her art institute in Faenza, is starting this year:

L'istituto d'arte "Ballardini " di Faenza riapre i corsi di Perfezionamento ARTE E TECNICHE DELLA CERAMICA

RESTAURO DELLA CERAMICA


this is a detail of a porcelain and leds installation
by Antonella Cimatti

frozen landscape with wishes for a New Year

sealed wishes...;
sealed by heath.., by cold..., by longing.., by hope...
porcelain, pigments, glaze 1280°C

sparkling wishes

for a Happy New Year

folded love letters or waterlilies?

'lanterns'; a necklace..or 'just' lanterns?

As there is now, since some time, also a site
where my ceramic work is shown, this blog is
quietly changing ; a place to post not only my
ceramic works, but something more of my
world; my inspirations and daily found
poetry; like these images of the most exquisite
little lanterns I found in my garden...

L'Alcora & Aveiro

I promised you a Rose Garden, Folded Love Letters
and Tokens of Love to be seen in L'Alcora and in Aveiro
(the exhibition in L'Alcora is prolonged until 11 october)

a happy story with a sad ending....

the story of the found and lost (destroyed!) necklace...

something different; there is n't any porcelain ....!

Vase

Summer Treasures

cushion brooch

Without my kiln, for a while, finally I mounted some of the smaller pieces, that I keep 'collecting'; my trials and errors and my color- and form tests, these test pieces somehow manage to start a life of their own as jewelery pieces or sometimes as little animals. Maybe because I find it really difficult to throw anything away.. (one never knows if they could turn into something...) and because these small scale trials inspire and keep me going... If they turn out interesting, I try to find out other possibilities. The cushions brooches I have been making for a while, have three layers of thin porcelain, the bottom layers are closed, so in baking they 'rise' nicely!. (I just made an appletart for Sanne's birthday, so this phrase is in style..) and the third layer has holes for the 'pins' and pearls and the stitching.

earrings

porcelain (glazed), sliver and gold (filled)

older events

Honorable mention 5th World Ceramic Biennale 2009 (CEBIKO), Korea

Biennial of Manises 2009 (Spain)

Biennial of Aveiro 2009 (Portugal)

L'Alcora 2009 (Spain)

"Folded Love Letters series" 2ndpremium CERCO 2008 (Zaragoza, Spain)

L'Alcora 2008, Spain

Biennale de L'Esplugues 2008, Spain

Gold Coast Award 2008, Australia

Argillà 2008 Fair (Faenza)

Fiera della Ceramica 2008 (Firenze)

(Publication Lark Books “500 ceramic sculptures” (spring 2009)

Museu de Cerâmica de Aveiro

"Tokens of Love" (a triptych)

will be in the Museu de Aveiro (Portugal)
from 3 October until 15 November 2009

Museu de Ceràmica de l'Alcora

“I Promised You a Rose Garden”,

is exhibited from 9 July until 6 September 2009
in the Museu de Ceràmica de l'Alcora,
Spain.

'folded' cups with gold rim

ribbed 'paper' cup and saucer

porcelain

waterlily; white with red, blue and bronze

porcelain with oxides and pigments, insides glazed
fired at 1280°C

in the shade of the trees

it is summer and terribly warm and it didn't seem a good idea
to heat the kiln..... but these days I had to....
so it was better to leave my atelier alone
and to stay under the shady trees..

I promised you a Rose Garden

"I promised you a rose garden"
(detail)
selected for L'Alcora 2009 (Spain)

"...I never promised you a rose garden, along with the sunshine,
there's gotta be a little rain sometimes...", says the song..
But what if I dìd promise you a Rose Garden...??
Maybe with a little love and fantasy my fragile roses will be
strong enough to create all on their own a beautiful garden with
all the fragrances of spring and summer ...
(and of autumn and winter too..!)

Korea & Westerwald

Folded Love Letters and Waterlilies

picaflores

'picaflores' or hummingbirds or 'colibrì';
maybe the spanish name is the nicest: it
shows them going inside a flower
and drinking the nectar..
these 'picaflores' are made of porcelain with forged silver
as earrings, they fly near the almost-open-flower-necklace.
I made them a while ago; between cups and bowls
I play and try things out with small designs like
these birds (that flew in my chilean garden)
or like the more abstract ribbed 'bronze' shell,
that is a part of the necklace.

at work

this picture was made with a phone camera
by someone in the garden at night..... :-)
I like especially working late in my atelier, at those hours
when everything seems quiet...