This is a porcelain dish that was thrown on the wheel. The glaze is a personal creation of Martine Mikaeloff's. She used a double firing of glaze to obtain different shades of blue and green. The piece was taken out of the kiln before it cooled off completely, to create a network of cracks.
©Martine Mikaeloff
©Martine Mikaeloff
©Martine Mikaeloff
©Martine Mikaeloff
Martine Mikaeloff
- Ceramicist
- Neupré, Belgium
- Master Artisan
Contact
French, English
Hours:
By appointment only
By appointment only
Phone:
+32 473125143
+32 473125143
©Martine Mikaeloff
On a quest for new glazes
- • Water is an important source of inspiration for Martine
- • She has a special creative bond with Japan
- • She can spend years researching specific glazes
Martine Mikaeloff fell in love with ceramics around her 40th birthday. “But I always had a love for arts and crafts, at first for drawing and painting, and I studied fine arts in my youth,” she says. “When I tried my hand at throwing clay on the wheel, I was immediately captivated by the contact with the material.” In the following years, she opened her own workshop and made this new passion her profession. She also gradually started to specialise. “I focus on the search for new glazes, which is a truly vast field,” she says. “I sometimes spend one to two years on specifically researching a glaze.” The forms of her creations – cups, bowls, plates, dishes – are simple and pure, but always different.
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Photo: ©Martine Mikaeloff
Bahamas – Dish
Photo: ©Martine Mikaeloff
Island – Porcelain plates
These three porcelain plates were thrown on the wheel. They have a green and crystallisation glaze, which are personal creations by Martine Mikaeloff. The two glazes are superimposed, to give depth. Martine Mikaeloff used a long firing process with several stages of cooling to make crystals appear.
Photo: ©Martine Mikaeloff
Nakkala – Large porcelain dish
This large porcelain dish was thrown on the wheel. The white crystallisation glaze is a personal creation of Martine Mikaeloff's. She used a long firing process with several stages of cooling to make crystals appear.
Photo: ©Martine Mikaeloff
Fuji – Porcelain plates
These two porcelain plates were thrown on the wheel. The overlaying of a white glaze on top of a black glaze gives the centre of the plates an unusual texture and mysterious bluish colour. This effect is the result of one of Martine Mikaeloff’s long research projects.
Photo: ©Martine Mikaeloff
Jupiter – Porcelain plate and small bowl
This plate and small bowl, made of porcelain, were thrown on the wheel. Martine Mikaeloff reshaped the edge of the plate by hand. The crystallisation glaze is her personal creation. She used a long firing process with several stages of cooling to make crystals appear.
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