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Margaret Seidenberg-Ellis
I try to capture some of the contrasts and variety that I find in nature in my work. Most of my work is hand built with slabs of clay. I often make marks through layers of contrasting slips on the surface of the slabs to create movement and a dynamic quality that I find exciting. The natural ash deposits and the flashing of the wood firing accentuate this and introduce a spontaneous quality that is somewhat beyond my control. I have fired my work in multiple ways and find that they all inform each other. For example, I started using layers of slip to add texture and variety to work that was going to be fired in my electric kiln in oxidation; I also developed several different texturing techniques. These techniques have been carried over to wood fired work and it is these wood-fired forms that come the closest to expressing my ideas about nature and beauty. Most recently I have been experimenting with underglaze transfers.
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