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I first found Kat Pino's work because of this one hanging piece she made- linked here https://www.instagram.com/p/B56KhavA6Bg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
This piece was the closest thing I could find to how I had envisioned creating my jellyfish. From there I got to explore the other types of work she does and fell in love with her style of simplicity.
She doesn't use much colour at all but her shapes and speckled pieces drew me in and are gorgeous.
"My creative process starts with the design phase, in which I create and develop new ideas, sketch, and define technical and aesthetic specifications. The first idea for a new product often comes from a need, a problem that needs solving, or an aesthetic that, in my opinion, could be better suited to an object or is different from what already exists. Other times I simply make what I like making or what I would want to show off at my dinner table.
What a new product must look like in terms of shape, colour, and functionality, is something that comes to me very quickly. I often sketch out the idea first or create a technical drawing, which states measurements and key functionalities. I sometimes cut out a 2D sample to check if those measurements are correct, and to make sure the proportions are easy on the eye.
After that, it’s time to sit behind the wheel and create the actual product. And making ceramics is an interesting, diverse, but also time-consuming process. It can easily take 3 weeks for a lump of clay to become a finished product!"- Kat Pino
I liked her combination of showing the raw clay with the glaze, it works well and compliments her muted colour choices. Her modernistic style and creative process interests me, such as in one collection of hers she splashes on black glaze, and during the firing process it runs and combines with the white glaze to create something unpredictable and fluid. It's small stuff like that where you can really bring the pieces of ceramics alive.
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