Gail Altschuler
Blurring the lines between art and craft.
The storytelling sculptural ceramics, slab-built porcelain vessels and
wall hanging plates, illustrated with sketchbook observations. The
themes include musicians, masks, fleeing refugees, buddha
sculptures, plants, children at play and objects drawn while visiting
museums. Building my porcelain pieces by hand, I fire them up to
1220ÂșC. The process involves many graphic procedures, combining
Mishima, inlay techniques, sgraffito, and coloured washes, all under
a transparent glaze. The Mishima inlay technique has hand drawn
lines, deepened, and corrected using a sharp pin needle tool and
then filled with underglaze before cleaning back to the crisp lines.
I work from my home/ studio in North London. Art history, art
education and ceramics are my passions. I studied Art and Design,
Fine Art, History of Art and have an MA in Art and Design
Education. I teach ceramics, art and art history to adults, teens, and
children.


