Christina Hartmann
I am a potter who runs a community pottery studio in St Catharines. Most of my time is spent
encouraging people who use the studio to create. I try to make as many colours and types of glazes and clays as is feasible so students and members are able to create pottery is a reflection of their creativity.
My own pottery is a reflection of my love of nature, my garden, cooking, the colours and textures that
can be achieved using clay and glazes, so that it is functional but also interesting to look at and to touch.
All aspects of pottery fascinate me, I use clay in wheel thrown work, slab building, glaze
experimentation. I love the idea that a chuck of “mud” has an infinite number of ways to to become
something completely different.
Most of my work starts with a colour combination ideas and textures whether from how I used the clay or the glazes used at the end. I have been working on the same ideas for years.
The best part of clay as a medium is that it is three dimensional, as much as artistic vision is needed, it
also has components of construction and science as well. In the end if someone buys a coffee cup from me, I would really want that to be a cup that makes drinking that coffee even more enjoyable, holding it, looking at it, as well as drinking the coffee.
I find inspirations everywhere, other potters, my garden, the Niagara Region, and my admiration of textile arts, their processes, colour use and textures. The two disciplines appear to be completely different but I have always thought the inspirations are the same.
I don’t see an end to the influences of nature on my pottery, there are so many ideas I would like to
explore, so many ways I would like to refine ideas I have already tried.
encouraging people who use the studio to create. I try to make as many colours and types of glazes and clays as is feasible so students and members are able to create pottery is a reflection of their creativity.
My own pottery is a reflection of my love of nature, my garden, cooking, the colours and textures that
can be achieved using clay and glazes, so that it is functional but also interesting to look at and to touch.
All aspects of pottery fascinate me, I use clay in wheel thrown work, slab building, glaze
experimentation. I love the idea that a chuck of “mud” has an infinite number of ways to to become
something completely different.
Most of my work starts with a colour combination ideas and textures whether from how I used the clay or the glazes used at the end. I have been working on the same ideas for years.
The best part of clay as a medium is that it is three dimensional, as much as artistic vision is needed, it
also has components of construction and science as well. In the end if someone buys a coffee cup from me, I would really want that to be a cup that makes drinking that coffee even more enjoyable, holding it, looking at it, as well as drinking the coffee.
I find inspirations everywhere, other potters, my garden, the Niagara Region, and my admiration of textile arts, their processes, colour use and textures. The two disciplines appear to be completely different but I have always thought the inspirations are the same.
I don’t see an end to the influences of nature on my pottery, there are so many ideas I would like to
explore, so many ways I would like to refine ideas I have already tried.
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A Third Space Pottery Studio
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