Description: The focus of my ceramic practice is currently on creating wall pieces. In addition, there are vessel forms and sculptural works.
The focus of my ceramic practice is currently on making wall pieces. Parallel to this, I create sculptural works, which also include vessel forms.
I comprehend my work as reflections of interior processes and states of mind in an interchange with my surroundings. What I want to achieve is to explore living, naturally growing processes and to allow the form to emerge in a dialogue with the material. To do this, I base my work mainly on the inspiring model of nature.
I make up the clays I use by hand using powdered raw materials from the Westerwald region. A coarsely grogged stoneware serves as the base layer for a thin layer of a body I have developed myself, which is then applied in various ways. In the interplay with oxides, engobes and the firing (in reduction 1280°C in a gas kiln), the body used in each instance largely determines how colour develops.