This vessel was wheelthrown and decorated with abstract brushstrokes using grey, green and red porcelain engobe. The piece is finished with a transparent glaze.
Sonja Top left her structured life in Holland behind and moved to Germany in the early 2010s. Today, she lives a life where almost everything revolves around ceramics. She works in a spacious ceramics studio and gallery set in an old grain mill in Sankt Goar, in the middle of the UNESCO World Heritage, upper middle Rhine Valley. For Sonja, the smooth, pure white surface of porcelain offers a perfect canvas for her decorations. She wants her vessels to show spontaneity and movement, strength, along with an organic flowing elegance. The different vistas surrounding her studio are reinterpreted and become abstract landscapes which reflect the internal conflicts of emotions and personal history. "Looking at my work, I see a mixture of chaos that exudes a certain calm. Chaotic silence," says Sonja.
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This vessel was wheelthrown and decorated with abstract brushstrokes using grey, green and red porcelain engobe. The piece is finished with a transparent glaze.
Photo: ©Sonja Top
This vessel was made with the slab building technique and decorated with abstract brushstrokes using self developed grey, green and red porcelain engobe. The piece is unglazed.
Photo: ©Sonja Top
This large plate was thrown on the wheel and then decorated with a self-designed dark-green monoprint. Abstract brushstrokes were added using green and red porcelain engobe. The piece is unglazed.
Photo: ©Sonja Top
This vessel was slab built with added structures. The vessel has been decorated with a self-designed orange monoprint and abstract brushstrokes were then added, using grey, turquoise and orange porcelain engobe. The piece is unglazed.
Photo: ©Sonja Top
This plate was thrown on the wheel and decorated with abstract brushstrokes using grey, turquoise and orange porcelain engobe. The piece is unglazed.