These thin, hand built vases are handcrafted from stoneware. The vases are painted and textured on their exterior with slip and glaze and finished with a matt glaze on their interior. The smaller dark one is painted and scratched with semicircles, the other blue one is decorated with light ground organic texture.
Height 16 cm
Diameter 17.5 cm
©Clemens C. Franke
©Clemens C. Franke
©Clemens C. Franke
©Clemens C. Franke
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Susanne Kallenbach
- Ceramicist
- Felde, Germany
- Master Artisan
Contact
German, English, French
Address:
Ranzel 5, D-24242 Felde, Germany
Ranzel 5, D-24242 Felde, Germany
Hours:
By appointment only
By appointment only
Phone:
+49 17664691330
+49 17664691330
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Ceramics for holding dreams
- • Susanne loves working with people
- • She has more ideas than she could ever hope to bring to life
- • Her work is influenced by local events
Susanne Kallenbach has developed a distinctive pottery panache focusing on simple archaic forms and rough and brittle but natural surfaces. "My style is relatively reduced. I have few shapes. Especially in the thin vessels, a lot is happening on the surfaces." Her work is often based on sketches and preliminary drawings, which frequently turn out differently when transferred to clay. For the German artisan, who studied ceramic arts at university, inspiration never runs out. “I compare it to the current of the oceans that carries a message in a bottle. You just have to fish for a bottle, take it out and open it.” She adds that she needs at least three more lives to produce the objects from all the ideas she already has.
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Vases
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Oval pool and Stormland vase
These ceramic vessels are handcrafted from stoneware and finished with slips and glazes. In the forefront, Oval pool is decorated with a white graphic texture on the outside like a snowy landscape and a light matt blueish celadon glaze on its interior. The vase in the background is finished with blue, grey, black and white hues painted form the outside, deep scratches and a crusty combed structure like sea in a hard stormy night and black matt glaze on its interior.
Length 33 cm
Width 25 cm
Height 10 cm
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Oval and straight cylinder vases
These hand built stoneware cases are finished with an intricate combination of slips, sand, oxides and glazes. In the foreground, the vessel is finished with a blue brown hued painting and texture. It is finished with a light matt celadon glaze on its interior. The vase in the background is textured with a grey, blue and brown horizontally divided painting. The case is finished with a light greyish matt celadon glaze inside.
Length 11 cm
Width 9 cm
Height 16.5 cm
Photo: ©Clemens C. Franke
Tulip vase
This bellied Tulip vase is handcrafted from stoneware, slip and glaze. The vase is partly thrown and deformed. It is finished with a small foot base, its exterior textured with an organic white finish and the inside a matt glaze.
Height 19 cm
Diameter 21 cm
Photo: ©Perlbach Fotodesign
Tryptichon
These three cylinders are handcrafted stoneware vases, around 55 cm high, and finished with a greyish-beige-brown painting with black graphic scratches. The vases have an organic texture and their interior surface finished with a grey celadon and light brown matt glaze.
Height 55 cm
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