Garden Art

Hand-carved stone statues and wall relief's, ceramic and clay pots, as well as primitive vessels, are used to enhance the garden experience. Garden art can be used to hold plant life, or to further accent your garden. The owner of the pot at right loves her concrete pots. She owns several and both are decorated with lines of sea shells and waves
of very subtle colour.

Art With Text

In our next unit, we are focusing on putting textual accents on our pieces. Whether that be song lyrics, quotes, book excerpts, or your own words. Imprints can be made my hand, or stamps; stamps being the more popular. Putting text into your art can leave a lasting impression on the meaning of your piece. Numbers can also be imprinted into the clay.

Hieroglyphics imprinted into clay from the Indus Valley civilization. C. 2500-1500

Clay Artists

Tioni Muona

Toini Muona's brilliance in cermamics was recognized in her first exhibition in 1932. She had a love of asymmetrical shapes and had a versastile use of glazes and other surface treatments, such as relief decoration. Muona had a search for continous renewal. Her favourite materials were porcelain and stoneware, although she also used chamotte and glazed earthenware.