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Karin Blach Nielsen

  • Ceramicist
  • Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Master Artisan
Karin Blach Nielsen Ceramicist
Contact
Danish, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+45 40539907
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Simple shapes, grand glazes

  • • Karin Blach Nielsen mainly works with hand-thrown stoneware
  • • Her studio shop is in Vesterbro, a trendy corner of Copenhagen
  • • She trained at the Design School in Kolding and the Royal College of Art in London

Karin Blach Nielsen is a ceramic artist who seeks the poetic balance between traditional shapes and complex glazes. Throughout her career, she has experimented with glaze materials and subtle refinements to play with texture and relief as well as colour. Soft pastel-like hues that soothe the senses are her hallmark. To Karin, classic designs for ceramics will transcend current tastes and fashions. She crafts pieces that last, in use and aesthetics, and manages to create a bond between object and user. Her compositions are at once functional objects and art pieces in their own right.

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Works

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Oval bowl

This oval bowl, thrown in black stoneware clay, reminder of a Danish Modern, yet is still unmistakenly a Karin Blach Nielsen piece with its edgy, dripping transparent-like glaze.

Height 10 cm
Width 26 cm

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Stem vases

Family resemblances are a theme in Karin Blach Nielsen's works. Even though her pieces interpret archetypical shapes, they belong to the same family, here in dark stoneware clay and a simple yet complex glaze universe.

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Stem vase

Stem vase is a thrown vase from the Colour series in a pale green/white mix of layered tin glazes. They create the illusion that the white colour is pouring out of the green.

Diameter 11 cm

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Large stoneware bowl

Functional object or art piece in its own right? This hand-thrown bowl in ochre yellow/brown in layered dry-matt glazes is part of the Colour series.

Diameter 26 cm

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Yellow vase

Simple, yet significant shape and even more considerable glaze – in pattern and colour, and in the combination between them. The vase is thrown and belongs to the Decó series.

Diameter 15 cm

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