Dutch artist Babs Haenen creates expressive and impressionistic ceramics that balance colour, line, and form. Her works are embellished in a painterly manner, highlighting the influence of abstract painting and landscape motifs on her practice. Since receiving the INAX Design Prize in 1991, an expanding oeuvre of colourful and spectacular porcelain vases, sometimes called vessels or pots, has established her reputation as an innovative artist with an unmistakable style and technique. Characteristic of Haenen’s ceramics is a certain “turbulence” in her treatment of the porcelain clay, where she uses a multiple firing and glazing technique that elicits rich and subtle colour effects.

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ISBN 9789493329164
96 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English