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Violante Lodolo D’Oria

  • Ceramicist
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Master Artisan
Violante Lodolo D’Oria Ceramicist
Contact
English, French, Italian, Spanish
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+44 7909925116
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Fascinated by colours

  • • Violante studied in Paris and New York
  • • She treats the surface of vessel as a canvas
  • • Italian Baroque architecture is one of her sources of inspiration

Born in Genoa, Italy, London-based artist Violante Lodolo D’Oria, studied in Paris, at the Ecole Camondo, and in New York, at the Pratt Institute, where she graduated in Fine Arts. But after a visit to a leading contemporary craft fair in London, where she could admire “the most exquisitely executed creation in different mediums”, she ditched her canvas and acrylic tubes and enrolled on a ceramic course at Morley College. Mesmerised by clay and influenced by her background in painting – especially in the way she glazes her works – Violante treats the vessel’s surface as a canvas and pours or paints onto the surface with a succession of various glazes to obtain a richness and variety in colour and intricacy in texture.

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Works

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Acqua Green Chalice vase

This one-off ceramic stoneware vase is entirely hand built using a variety of techniques, such as press moulding, coiling and slab building. The final shape is obtained by altering, subtracting, and adding new forms or elements. Matt and glossy glazes have been meticulously superimposed, to obtain a variety of green nuances and richness in the texture before being fired in oxidation at 1245°C.

Length 15 cm
Width 15 cm
Height 27 cm

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Deep Blue Torso vase

This one-off ceramic stoneware vase represents a stylised visualisation of a woman’s bust, inspired by Amedeo Modigliani’s artwork. The inverse T-shape of the vase with its elongated neck mirrors the aesthetic qualities found in Modigliani’s paintings – and, metaphorically – the concave and oval shape carved in the middle of the form represents its heart. This vase is entirely hand built and fired in oxidation at 1260°C.

Length 29 cm
Width 23 cm
Height 35 cm

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Sapphire Blue & Green Constellation vessel

This one-off ceramic stoneware vessel is entirely hand built using a variety of techniques, such as press moulding, coiling and slab building. The vessel has an added element of surprise due to its double-walled structure, purposefully creating a definite contrast between the interior – that is overtly decorated – and its exterior, which has been kept simple. This contrast has been enhanced with the glazing. The deep blue on the inside is exalted when juxtaposed to a variety of green and tan hues. This vessel has been fired in oxidation at 1245°C.

Length 44 cm
Width 43 cm
Height 22 cm

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Variegated Deep Blue Cylindrical vase

This one-off ceramic stoneware vase is entirely hand built using a variety of techniques, such as press molding, coiling and slab building. Its cylindrical shape is crowned with a large outwardly rim that gives a sense of airiness and elasticity, and the walls have been decorated with a rhythmic distribution of three-dimensional shapes, in niches. Two different glazes have been carefully poured in succession to leave very distinctive trails of glazes on the surface, as if the various hues of blue were cascading down its body, accentuating its elongated shape.

Length 29 cm
Width 29 cm
Height 37 cm

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Tan Green Bell-Shaped vessel

This one-off ceramic stoneware vessel is entirely hand built using a variety of techniques, such as press moulding, coiling and slab building. Its bell shape is a reference to the pottery of ancient Greece but with a modern reinterpretation of its aesthetic. The walls have been altered and decorated with additional elements to add another spatial dimension and the rhythmic distribution of these decorative ornaments further the rhythm of the vessel. The contrast between the interior and its exterior is magnified by the choice of glazing, with the juxtaposition of a light colour set close to a darker one.

Length 33 cm
Width 33 cm
Height 23 cm

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