Lidia Boševski workshop - Texture database - Clay and wood

The fourth open workshop 

of Association Terracotta continues the work on the project by Lidia Boševski

In the fourth Terakota workshop we worked with wood textures (branches, sections, bark)

Participants created prints for the database of textures and the prints

that will be designed so that they can serve as a ceramics tools.

Each student created an object inspired by a form from the nature

 with wood texture applied on it.

Soil and wood are inseparable, so the clay welcomes cellulose – if joined, they can form a new material. Wood/cellulose we may find in the paper, material ubiquitous in our everyday life. 

At the end of this workshop everyone created a sample of paper from wood pulp found in the woods and recycled paper.

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Photo credit: Lidia Boševski
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Lidia Boševski workshop - Texture database - Clay and stone

Report from the 2nd workshop
which was held at Lidia Boševski atelier Owl in December 2013.
With this 2nd workshop Lidia started her project under the working title
“Database of textures from the nature”.

Lidia’s idea of a database of textures developed over a period of ten years, through intense being in nature, collecting various materials (bark, branches, seeds, stones, leaves), photographing, using specific fragments as tools, and organizing the workshop “Ceramic herbarium” in the Botanical garden in Zagreb. In order to bring the collected material into a meaningful whole, Lidia has decided to create systematically, over a longer period and with the help of the Terracotta workshop participants, a database that would serve as a reminder, a creative connection with nature, as inspiration and a potential collection of working tools. 

The workshop opens the database with selected stones and their graphics.

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Photo credit: Lidia Boševski

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Lidia Boševski workshop - painting with clay

Last year in October I attended first organized workshop at Lidia Boševski atelier. 

I meet Lidia two years ago and from the first moment I fell in love with her work and I fell in love with clay. 

From there it all began.

This workshop was organized as a part of a Teracotta Association (Udruga Terakota).

Terracotta is a nonprofit association established to encourage artistic experiment,

research in materials and exchanges in the field of ceramics and related arts.

It was held by Lidia Boševski and her collaborators Sanja Lovrenčić and Nataša Ninić.

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Day 79

                                                                        Luminary 

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White clay

Brown engobe

Fired

So...

It’s been quite a while that I didn’t update my blog so it’s time to finally do it!
This pinch pot project is much harder than I expected, especially when you don’t have time to do all the things that you want in a day.
So far I tested my limits, my weak points, my patience and much more with this project. I’m not a professional ceramist so I don’t have a studio to work at. For now I work in a little corner of my boyfriends working/living room. And sometimes the whole process of making something is really a venture. But that exciting story is for another time.

I decided to stop with pinch pot project when I reach a number of 100 pots. My initial idea was to make 365 of them! I was really enthusiastic at the beginning! But now I know in which direction I want to go with my work so I think it’s not necessary to go all the way with this project. 

Hope you will stay with me and wait a little bit more for all this pinch pots that I made!

Day 65

The fatty one

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Salmon color clay (Creaton 359)

I can't stop with dots.

Day 62

Brown dotted bowl

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This is similar to day 37, 

I made it for my father, for his birthday which is today :)

 I'm going to use this bowl for glass fusing also.

Unfired

Day 37

Dots

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Brown chamotte clay

Unfired

UPDATE: fired

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