September 2013
Author: Lone Beiter
Sculptor and ceramicist
Exhibitions spring 2013
During this spring I had work included in special exhibitions in The Lavit Gallery in Cork City and at Feile na Casca in Ballyferriter, Co.Kerry. I am also showing work continuously at Greenlane Gallery, Dingle, in Millcove Gallery, Kenmare, and The Lavit Gallery, Cork.
Glaze testing May 2013
During May 2013 I have been developing some new glazes and colours, it is still ongoing, and above are a few photos of whats been happening so far. To be continued!
Ceramics by Lone O’Reilly
Welcome
thanks for coming in to have a look at my most recent ceramic pieces and photos.
I work on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, between the mountains and the Atlantic ocean. This landscape is reflected in much of my work.
THROWN PIECES
Working on the potter’s wheel (throwing) has been one of my favourite things to do since … forever! So, of course, I also produce some thrown pots. And sometimes I combine this technique with handbuilding, as with these boats.
TILE DESIGN
Another interest of mine has to do with the classic 15x15cm commercial white tile that we all know so well. It is easily available and I love it for its simplicity. However I also love complicating things….! So, instead of placing them in the usual straight lines, I cut some of them up so they form other patterns. I combine these with modules of my own handmade tiles with crystal glazes.
Vessels
THROWN PIECES
I start some of my work on the potters wheel. I combine this technique with handbuilding, as with these stoneware boats and.
Ripples
I am fascinated by SAND formations…. perhaps as a result of growing up on the flat and sandy soil of the west coast of Jutland in Denmark. As far as the eye can see, the dunes along the coast there are the only things rising out of the landscape. I have always loved their gently swooping shapes which, from a distance, form repeating patterns.
Lately, here in Ireland, I have been working on the beach, taking imprints of the sand ripples that appear at low tide. Often they remind me of the water that created them, standing like waves frozen in time. On other days they echo the shapes of the mountains around this area, ground and polished by millions of years of rain and wind. The variations are endless and fascinating and, once in a while, the ripples take the concentric shape of rings of woodgrain or like the gradient contours on the highest point of a map.
Back in my workshop I design ceramic pieces based on the patterns that I have captured. I form them in white stoneware clay and apply richly coloured glazes to accentuate the patterns and shapes of nature.
Some of these pieces are presented flat as tiles and can be hung on the wall with or without frames.
More recently I have experimented with these patterns in cylindrical format (photographs to follow soon)
Spring 2012
Ceramics by Lone O’Reilly
Welcome
I invite you to have a look at my most recent ceramic pieces and photos.
I work on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, between the mountains and the Atlantic ocean. This landscape is reflected in much of my work.
RIPPLES
I am fascinated by SAND formations….
perhaps as a result of growing up on the flat and sandy soil of the west coast of Jutland in Denmark. As far as the eye can see, the dunes along the coast there are the only things rising out of the landscape. I have always loved their gently swooping shapes.
Lately, here in Ireland, I have been working on the beach, taking imprints of the sand ripples that appear at low tide. Often they remind me of the water that created them, standing like waves frozen in time. On other days they echo the shapes of the mountains around this area, ground and polished by millions of years of rain and wind. The variations are endless and fascinating and, once in a while, the ripples take the concentric shape of rings of woodgrain or like the gradient contours on the highest point of a map.
Back in my workshop I design ceramic pieces based on the patterns that I have captured. I form them in white stoneware clay and apply richly coloured glazes to accentuate the patterns and shapes of nature.
THROWN PIECES
Working on the potter’s wheel is what made me fall in love with clay in the first place. So, of course, I also produce thrown pots. MostIy I combine this technique with handbuilding, as with these boats.