Gray/Green Ceramic Pod Composite Sculpture

Hollow yet weighted, this contemplative ceramic sculpture is both an object to look at as well as to hold. The center opening creates negative space, suggesting the passing through o...

A new series of small sculptures in the Modern Totemic vein. Not exactly humanistic, but they do have feet and personality. They are abstract...

Hand built Ceramic Sculpture, "White Cloud". A composite of hollow, elongated pointed oval or elliptical shapes, individually hand-formed clay parts, attached together and fused during the firing. White stoneware with a white underglaze creating a soft, powdery surface that still shows a bit of texture from the clay. They have a cloud-like presence, inspired by the huge bare boulders of the Anza Borrego...

A hollow oval sculpture on 4 button feet. Part of a new series of related pieces, a sculptural "Family" of Modern Shapes as ceramic stoneware objects. This piece has a dark matte bro...

Organic Vase, 2015, (Ceramic, C. 12.1 in. h x 7.5 in. d, Object No.: 3389). Turi Heisselberg Pedersen has, all through her career, strived to develop the vessel as abstract form and as an independent sculptural object. As Turi notes “working in clay is to me connected with many underlying cultural bound references, but also strongly connected to nature. The very process of building in clay is a process from nature to culture. We have an inherent understanding of beauty and design evolved in thousands of years of visual impressions from our cultural history, but especially also from nature. In this context, I am aiming to create a visual and emotional reading of the objects, working with shape, rhythm, volume, movement, and texture”. In the interplay between culture and nature, Turi’s works are inspired by geological structures and crystal formations, but also by architecture, the edged rendering of a computer drawing or folded paper shapes. Most of her faceted shapes seem to have a seed of coincidence or unplanned development, reminding one of crystal formations growing in irregular clusters.? Heisselberg Pedersen’s sculptures are hand-modeled from stoneware and glazed with slip-glazes, which gives the works a stone-like, dry surface with a rich texture. Some of Turi’s designs...

Lima bean sculpture Nephrite Jade Hand carved Limited edition Known as the “Stone of Heaven,” Nephrite Jade is prized for both its aesthetic beaut...

Echo Form No. 2 - Hand-Coiled Grey Stoneware Sculpture by Rachel Peters. Echo Form No. 2 is a hand-built ceramic sculpture crafted from coarse grey stoneware clay using the traditio...

Contemporary textured ceramic earthenware vase. Carved green body with a yellow center band and grey bottom band. The vase design has an ancient feel. Hand made one of a kind. Pa...