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Details
Ceramic
H. 15.5 x dia. 12.5 cm
About the series 'Botanical Tales'
"My ‘Botanical Tales’ vases are inspired by my surroundings and background. The vases with poppies represent the tenacity of nature in small ways: even in an urban environment, just outside of Paris where I live, and millstone houses dominate the landscape, these poppies manage to find their way to pop up.
The darker vase with a hint of wysteria is inspired by certain streets in Paris at dusk where these flowers paint the façades of the buildings in streaks of blue/purple.
The vase with lotus is a reminiscent of lacquer paintings in Vietnam, the birth place of my parents, depicting lotus leaves and flowers.
Using a combination of building and surface decoration techniques, I incorporate an element of delicacy in my pieces, be it imagery, structural, the glaze or the making and firing process, while still ensuring the pot is functional: it should be sturdy enough to use. I want to show that this delicacy or fragility can also be strength and confers a piece its strength."
About Jeanette Nguyen
"Just outside Paris, where I live, millstone houses dominate the landscape. And yet, there are pockets of nature to be found from trees whose blossoms colour the streets pink or white in spring, and a little while later little explosions of red dot a background of urban yellow and beige: poppies that pop up wherever they want. I capture these little niches of nature in an urban setting in a vessel of black stoneware."
"Using a combination of building and surface decoration techniques, I incorporate an element of delicacy in my pieces, be it imagery, structural, the glaze or the making and firing process, while still ensuring the pot is functional: it should be sturdy enough to use. I want to show that this delicacy or fragility can also be strength and confers a piece its strength."
"I am originally trained as a scientist, studying the fluid dynamics of biomaterials in Amsterdam. While working in education in Paris, I signed up for wheel throwing in stoneware and porcelain classes and was hooked. Eager to learn more about ceramics, I also followed multiple workshops in raku-firing and in different aspects of ceramics, while improving my skills and finding my style. A couple of years ago I took the plunge and now dedicate my time to making ceramics professionally in my home atelier."
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