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Being a sensitive observer of his environment silver- and goldsmith Johannes Borst enjoys making copies of this with diverse wire creations. He portraits everyting exactly with admirable dexterity from a sheep to a concrete mixer truck. »more… |
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Sara Moorhouse explores the ways in which spaces within landscape appear altered depending on the ever-changing colours of season, weather, time and farming. The bowls act as canvas for paintings that distil specific landscpe scenes, perceptibly altering the size, depth and shape of the form by the applied colour. »more… |
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Claire Coles uses needlecraft at any time and any occasion. Delicately sewn and stitched everything is turned into something precious and unique. Her speciality are beautiful hand-sewn panels of vintage wallpapers that have an ethereal quality thanks to the stitching and emotive patterns. »more… |
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Margrieta Jeltema is fascinated by the fragility but also the strength of the porcelain and, perhaps due to the history of her journey through the world of art, she loves to transfer qualities of paper to this material to resemble paper. »more… |
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Master goldsmith Sabine Reichert from Stuttgart in Germany follows her desire to conquer large scale works, by concentrating on the production of bowls made of silver, which quite apart from a person wearing jewellery influence the athmosphere of the living space . »more… |
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Astrid Kellers' s exquisite objects are made of silver, enamelled copper or paper. At the same time perfection is playing with the imperfection spending all attention on hues and details. In their very special way they seem to be the modern relatives of the treasures of August the Strong, famous baroque sovereign of Saxony »more… |
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Daniel Reynolds established in the international ceramic world as virtuosic specialist. But if you ask him for some references he will give you just a hint to the regional greengrocer. Fresh and very cool! »more… |
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When you discover the objects which Barbara Hast creates out of porcelain you cannot help but be amazed: What is it? Little mugs and cups, boxes and containers, vessels. They sit together like little fruits covered by fine decorations on matt or shiny surfaces. »more… |
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The printed tin tableaux made by Melanie Tomlinson are inspired by human life and her passion for nature. The scenes she creates sometimes have roots within other cultures and may appear deliberately mysterious or strange. Romania is very close to her heart and often she includes traces of its culture within her work. »more… |
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Die Danish ceramist Inge Marie Fruelund relies on very classic methods which she has down pat. Argil and glazes are her prefered materials to create vessels catching a charakter somewhere between Art Deco, humorous creativity and an intensive feeling for graphics and style. »more… |
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You can see individuality of wooden growth and grain in the beautiful objects made by wood turner Horst Kontak. They have soft forms and they are perfectly crafted. They show nature contributing to design. »more… |
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Karen Nyholm is working with extraordinary technical perfection and at the same time she gives her fancy full scope. She is selecting her subjects associatively transferring them with admirable mastership. There is always something to discover at the second glance. »more… |
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A slightly warped secretiveness is characteristic for Heike Roesner´s coloured treasure boxes. They are watched by a bit knobbed delegates of a very special beastly fantasy world. She forms with wire. She paints with paper - colours and surfaces. At he end she always gets charming boxes for individual secrets. »more… |
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Sonngard Marcks offers all her decorative, graphic and pictorial imagination to create her ceramic oeuvre - and these talents obviously never run out. »more… |
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Behind the study of bottles we find Jet Mous engaging in are quite simply plastic bottles which are normally sold containing different kinds of detergents. Ceramically transformed and now often highly coloured they divulge a new and very individual aesthetic interpretaion »more… |
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The glass bowls of Kkatharina Horst reflect a heavy cool athmosphere, just like the ice melting from a glacier. They are so much material, marked by transparent massive shape. But she knows how to overcome the weight of the material artistically. »more… |
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for the eye are conjured up in glass and enamel colours by Freia Schulze. Fruit in various colours, flowers, stars, dots and fantastic creatures circle and swarm around her small pieces of art: paperweights and glass. Through the interplay between light and occasionally transparent, engraved and cut glass subjects she creates a variety of effects which are extremely precious. »more… |
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Uschi Ullmann has spent years in extreme concentration. Her series of coloured glass cups is based on the perhaps most basic shape a cup could possibly have - the multitude of variations deriving from the manufacturing process. And of course from the colours - presently there are about 70 variations of shade. »more… |
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Karin Sehnert has to make time in order to produce her tiny exclusive collection of ‘good spirits’ in her own small workshop. Her ‘day job’ is in production design for industry, having first completed studying how to paint on china and a degree at the University of the Arts in Halle – Burg Giebichenstein. »more… |
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Our imagination is highjacked by these winged characters. They settle down as guardian or Christmas angel or other poultry. More abstracts, open minded for every mood they are an invention of artist Gabriele Siegl. »more… |
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