Judith Stieding
A touch of "weirdness"
Judith Stieding is the place to go if you are looking for functional and timeless ceramics for everyday use. She produces cups, bowls, vases and much more in small series or as individual pieces on the potter's wheel. By adding basalt, sand, wild clay and various types of ash, no two pieces are the same. Gentle, restrained shapes and a natural color spectrum characterize her work, paired with a pinch of "weirdness", as the ceramist herself describes it.
Judith Stieding
Kreuzstraße
41849 Wassenberg
+49 (0) 15774910687
judith.stieding@gmx.de
Judith Stieding's main areas of work well explained:
Shino refers to a genre of ceramics that originated in Japan in the 16th century and is still highly prized today for its tactile and visual qualities.
Seladon refers to grey-green to blue-green thickly applied feldspar glazes whose special colouring comes from iron oxide.
Glaze is a glass-like layer which, from a purely functional point of view, is mainly used to provide the porous shards underneath (term for a fired ceramic mass) with a waterproof, dense coating.
Engobe refers to a mixture of finely slurried clay liquefied with water, which is applied to raw or also bisqued ceramic workpieces for decoration.
In fossil fuel furnaces fired with oil, gas, wood, coal or coke, the fire occurs in an open flame and reducing atmosphere.
Designation for ceramics which, with or without glaze after the firing process above 1200° C, has a hard, solid and dense body (term for a fired ceramic mass).
In the context of the „Internationalen Keramiktage Oldenburg“ , the term "unique vessel" is associated with special, artistic vessels.
The term "utility ceramics" is used in the context of the "International Ceramics Days Oldenburg" to refer to handmade ceramics which, no matter what form they take, are primarily geared to function.