After some fourty years I became intrigued to start pottery again after meeting with known ceramicist and designer Alexandra Nilasdotter. She was having an exhibition at a typeo pop-up event in Hunnestad, Österlen and the conversation with her re-ignited my enthusiasm for ceramics once again.

 

It was glazes and decoration what intrigued me at that time most and so I thougt to produce a plain vessel that would serve as canvas for variations of decor. I quote from my diary: "The idea is to manufacture a standard ceramic objects, their outer surface lending themself as a canvas for different decor systems. Mixes of different salts and oxides along with custom glazes will be applied to the naked shard, which partly remains unglazed."

 

To be honest, nothing much came of that. I made a series with sketches of rape seed pods that I scratched through a black unfired glaze. And I used stencils to apply a proprietary "tatoo" to the naked, unfired shard.

These days those pieces play almost no roll at all any longer. Today my bowls with outwardly inclined contour are the product of the day.

They are dishwasher safe, microwave safe and certified as food safe and come in three standard sizes.

BOWLs, small and medium

 

BOWL | stoneware

New colors: In addition to the blue came salmon, green, and white. In their first run they came out pretty subtle.

 

 

BOWL | stoneware

Hand thrown stoneware | 62 x 203 mm (hight/diameter) | piece with a custom glaze applied by brush on the unfired object. Sgraffito dekorated with two signature lines running around the lower outside and signatur rape motive. Marked on bottomstamp with "AR" .

 

BOWL | stoneware

Hand thrown stoneware | 72 x 190 mm (hight/diameter) | Experimental piece with a custom glaze applied by brush on the unfired object. Sgraffito dekorated with rape motive and two signature lines running around the lower outside. Marked on bottom with "AR" stamp and the DESIGN STUDIO RIESS brand logo

 

 

BENT PLATTER | 190 mm | stoneware

Along with the bowls a platter was fired. It came out of the kiln bent due to faulty stacking.

 

BOWL WITH RAPE MOTIVE | stoneware

Hand thrown stoneware | Experimental piece with a custom glaze applied by brush on the unfired object. Sgraffito dekorated with rape motive and two signature lines running around the lower outside. Marked on bottom with "AR" stamp

 

 

BOWL | 60 x 165 mm | stoneware

Experiment with a custom glaze applied by brush on the unfired object. Two signature lines were added to assess how the the system lends itself to sgrafitto.

 

BOWL #1 | 75 x 225 mm

brush decoration under shiny transparent glaze - many imperfections and certainly nothing but a beginning.

 

 

BOWL #1 | 75 x 225 mm

unfired shard waiting for decoration

 

BOWL #1 | 75 x 225 mm

after truning, with coffee mug in background

 

 

From the sketchbook

spring 2017