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RockyCanyon Tile – Kat & Harry Dellamater -Ceramicists-
RockyCanyon Tile – Kat & Harry Dellamater -Ceramicists-
Kat and Harry Dellamater work together at their home studio and fabrication shop in Robie Creek, Idaho, America. Harry creates all the steel table and wall frames and Kat creates all the ceramic tile. Every piece of artwork is created to safely live outdoors, year round. Table frames are powder coated and wall frames are coloured and then sealed with an epoxy clear coat. Their highly detailed ceramic tile is moisture proof and epoxy grouted for durability. Their pieces are colourful and happy that tell a story.
The process starts with a block of wet clay, that is sent through a slab roller which helps create a uniform thickness. Then they cut out flowers, leaves, bugs and various sizes of dots from these slabs. The shapes go through a multiple glazing and firing process which includes both high and low temperature firings so the tiles are impervious, brightly coloured and finely detailed. Each year Kat tries to incorporate additional designs to include with the standard garden flower theme. They have quail, songbirds, bunnies, turtles, herons, trout, goldfish, and lots of other designs in the works.
Their partnership in creating these beautiful pieces of art is amazing. The knowledge and skills they have really come together to create masterpieces. The intricate detail of each individual piece is a testament to their love of what they do. You can see they really care about what they create. They've inspired my work with how they can create these natural shapes out of a slab. Their technique of using a cut out piece of card as a template is something I've used when creating my shapes.
Anastasia Tumanova - Ceramicist -
Anastasia Tumanova - Ceramicist -
Anastasia Tumanova is a San Francisco-based ceramicist whose work is inspired by the Californian landscape. She captures the spirit of nature by arranging nature’s shapes, patterns, and colors into dimensional artworks that bring the outdoors into the home.
"My earliest memory of seeing art in my natural surroundings was observing a strand of dotted red currants in the small garden of my family dacha in Moscow and feeling an outpouring of delight. I experience moments like this everyday, seeing them in bobbing heads of Nasturtium, lush leaves of Acanthus, elegant strands of Eucalyptus leaves, and happy yellow daisies. I channel these moments of delight and the emotions they evoke within me through ceramic arrangements and paintings, mediums that allow me to capture color, form, texture, movement, and dimensionality. My artwork is playful, dynamic, as well as calming. I work improvisationally much like a musician, every painting and ceramic mural is created in the moment, guided by my emotions and intuitions." - Anastasia Tumanova
I absolutely love Anastasia Tumanova's work, it's breath-taking. It's amazing how each of her pieces fit and work together. Her pieces evoke a very calming and peaceful atmosphere. The fact that she doesn't use colour in her mandala pieces doesn't bother me. The similar colours to the walls make them feel like they're a part of the wall. It's like a play on perspective which I think is very unique to her.
I've learnt a lot from Tumanova in terms of installation which helped with my pieces. She makes some mandalas on wooden boards and from her Instagram she has answered all the questions about them. I learnt about French Cleats from her, which is a really easy way to install hanging pieces.
Polina Oshu - Graphic Designer
Polina Oshu - Graphic Designer
"I love to create floral and abstract patterns for printing on textile, paper goods or any other support. I design artworks to be executed in knitting and make illustrations for packaging, books and practically anything." - Polina Oshu
Polina Oshu is a graphic designer from St. Petersburg based in Riga. She calls herself an endless pattern-making machine. I found her work a couple years ago now and her sketchbooks are just inspiring! The way she draws patterns is so satisfying and the colours she uses compliment each other so well. I learnt a lot about colour theory from her which helped me decide my colour pallets on this project.
Betty Woodman - Artist
Betty Woodman - Artist
After researching Betty Woodman in my contextualising art and design class, I became so inspired by her philosophy and way of working. Between her and Ai Weiwei they both changed my view of how to work with clay. Woodman taught me that there's no limit in what I can do with clay, I can break all the rules like her and just let my creativity take over.
Betty Woodman experimented with how clay reacted and interacted with ideas of sculpture. She experimented through questioning the concept behind the pot which has been a universal form through human history. However, no matter what she created she always started on the potters’ wheel as a ‘form generator’. She would throw large disks of clay and elongate them by slapping them against a canvas board. Then she would cut them up and use the pieces to make collages. Her process fascinated me and get me into experimenting with my own work during this project.
Ai Weiwei -Conceptual Artist
Ai Weiwei -Conceptual Artist
Ai Weiwei was the first artist I encountered that uses ceramics in a completely different way than I had ever seen before. He blew my mind on how ceramics can be used in art - not just in a conventional way. While his pieces are controversial I can understand both sides.
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