These ceramic bowls, large and small, are part of Margot Thyssen’s exploration into how to bring multiple layers of porcelain together and maintain their excitement, purity and transparency. These works, created from three layers of porcelain, received the Henry Vande Velde award in 2014.
Diameter 14 cm
Height 6.5 cm
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©Peter Timmers
©Margot Thyssen
Margot Thyssen
- MT Ceramics & Design
- Ceramicist
- Kapellen, Belgium
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Playful perfection
- • Margot fell in love with porcelain, and still is
- • She believes less is more
- • She has mastered the multilayer slip casting technique
As a ceramicist, Margot Thyssen strives for perfection. When she discovered the colour, soft feeling and transparency of porcelain, she fell in love with the material. Over the years she has taken the technique of multilayer slip casting to a higher level, which results in a very personal collection of multi-layered – often-colourful – objects. After years of training and attending national and international master classes – including that of Rudi Delanghe and Willy van Bussel – she opened her own studio in 2013. “Making ceramics gives me a relaxed feeling in my mind and body. I try to create an object that makes me feel good, and hopefully that goes for the public too.”
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Photo: ©Klikoog Fotografie
Twins
Photo: ©Klikoog Fotografie
Multi Jar
When Margot Thyssen created these jars, each crafted from six layers of porcelain, she was in her more colourful period and wanted to experiment by bringing multiple colours together in one piece. The jars are a limited edition because it takes a lot of work to process and finish them off perfectly. It is never Margot’s aim to create large quantities of a single creation, so she allows herself to experiment a lot within a series.
Length 7.5 cm
Width 6.2 cm
Height 7.5 cm
Photo: ©Klikoog Fotografie
Multi cups
When Margot Thyssen created these cups, each crafted from six layers of porcelain, she was in her more colourful period and wanted to experiment by bringing multiple colours together in one piece. The cups take a lot of time to create and finish perfectly as Margot must always think in depth about the colour combinations. From a technical point of view, not all colours can go together without giving some sort of distortion.
Height 8 cm
Diameter 6 cm
Photo: ©Margot Thyssen
Mo Shan
During her creative process, Margot Thyssen encountered a technical problem which lead to the creation of a technique used to craft these bowls. It took Margot several years to fine tune and master the technique consisting in the building of objects by layering porcelain. Since she is a perfectionist, Margot had to turn a key in her head because this is a technique that she cannot control. The end result will always be something different.
Height 7 cm
Diameter 13 cm
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