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Large platter

‘They say Lightening never strikes twice’

Coloured Porcelain – hand-built Nerikomi platter with solid silver Kintsugi highlights

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, people are getting bored staying at home all day, so today we're delighted to share some eye-pleasing Nerikomi ceramics by Judy McKenzie that you can enjoy from home. What are the Nerikomi process and the Kintsugi process? Let' learn more.

Porcelain Nerikomi bowl

Sunset Clouds

Colored porcelain

16cm w x 12cm h

Porcelain Nerikomi bowl

Summer Country Walk

Colored porcelain with silver Kintsugi

16cm w x 12cm h

Porcelain Nerikomi bowl

Summer Garden

Colored porcelain with silver Kintsugi

16cm w x 12cm h

Porcelain Nerikomi bowl

Troubled Sky

Colored porcelain with silver Kintsugi

16cm w x 12cm h

A group of four nerikomi bowls

Colored porcelain

Human beings have been making ceramics for nearly ten thousand years. Primitive people knead clay into simple shapes and then fired ceramic. You can say that making ceramics is an almost instinctive creation.

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls with silver Kintsugi

Troubled Sky: Small footed vessel

8cm h x 10cm w

Troubled Sky: Small conical vessel

8cm h x 11.5 cm w

Some people say that pottery is an art made from earth and fire, a simple art. However, for thousands of years, the art of delicate ceramics showed a variety of forms, colors, patterns, and textures with their light hands. Though as the simplest of substances it is, radiating the richest of possibilities.

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls with silver Kintsugi

Sunset Sky: Small footed vessel

8cm h x 10cm w

Sunset Sky: Small conical vessel

8cm h x 11.5 cm w

As an indigenous British artist, and graduated from the royal college of the art learning western art, Judy McKenzie should be a very authentic western artist, but in her creation, she unexpectedly chose from two Oriental ceramics art: Nerikomi and Kintsugi, and make full use of these two characteristics to create ceramic utensils with highly decorative touches.

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls

Summer Garden: Small footed vessel

8cm h x 10cm w

Summer Garden: Small conical vessel

8cm h x 11.5 cm w

The combination of Nerikomi, a handmade technique of creating unique patterns out of colored clay, and Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery, was depicted as a precious scar by Judy McKenzie, a sense of the power and beauty from fragile ceramics.

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls

Blue and Yellow Sky: Small footed vessel

8cm h x 10cm w

Blue and Yellow Sky: Small conical vessel

8cm h x 11.5 cm w

Today we are going to share Nerikomi ceramics by Judy McKenzie. Because it has very mesmerizing colors, a whimsical look, if not in detail, you may probably think it is hand-painted, with various bright colors, but it is not dazzled, also won't make people feeling uncomfortable. Instead, it feasted your eyes, very bright and delights, like beautiful clouds in the sky, a brilliant sunset, or hand-painted abstract paintings.

A grouping of the small conical vessels

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls

All 8cm h x 11.5cm w

The beauty of Nerikomi, the rhyme of utensils, nothing can beat this.

A grouping of the small-footed vessels

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls

All 8cm h x 10cm w

About Nerikomi ceramics:

Nerikomi is a kind of traditional Chinese ceramics process, and it is a shame that the crafts, in the Northern Song Dynasty "Jingkang Change", due to successive years of war gradual decline and getting lost. The main skill feature is using two or more different colors of clay, in the process of production, through the color mixing and twisting, so that the clay presented different colors and patterns, and its cross-section as the surface of the objects, to produce a myriad of patterns and textures on the surface, very decorative and artistic.

A Country Walk grouping

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls

Small footed vessel

8cm h x 10cm w

Small conical vessel

8cm h x 11.5 cm w

Porcelain white stoneware Nerikomi with Kintsugi

Open bowl: 23cm w x 12cm d

Round form: 21cm w x 24cm h

Taller bowl: 16cm w x 12 cm h

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Nerikomi process is introduced to Japan by the article "Xiuwu kiln(a porcelain kiln) of the Northern Song Dynasty" written by Koyama Fuji, an ancient ceramist. Since then, there are a lot of ceramics attempts to recreate the Nerikomi process and formed "practice started" process in Japan, and has produced a vast of different schools, the living treasure Matsui Yasunari is the best of all, through the practice of hand techniques, not only make the craft more perfect, but also integrates modern elements and aesthetic, so that Nerikomi has a richer expression, and spread the craft to the world.

Other Nerikomi Ceramics

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