Cow Mug - Ceramic Mug - by Hannah Niswonger

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"Cow Mug"

Ceramic Mug

Created by Hannah Niswonger
A hand-built white stoneware mug, hand-painted with underglaze stains and finished with a transparent, glossy glaze. The mug is dishwasher and microwave safe.
Dimensions: 4.5in H x 3.5in diameter
This piece ships on or before: Sat, Jun 8, 2013
Shipping charge (based on items in My Basket): $12.00
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$90.00  

About this Artist

Hannah Niswonger

"I love the immediacy of the connection people make with images of animals. "

Hannah Niswonger builds functional pots out of white stoneware. Her tools are simple: a knife, a serrated metal rib, a sponge, a brush. All of her work is hand-built from slabs of clay. As she works the slabs, she imagines fabric. The pots are sewn together: scored along the edges, nipped and tucked together to make rounded forms from sheets of clay.

Using a Chinese calligraphy brush, the artist paints bone dry pots with under-glaze stains that act like an ink wash or watercolors on the absorbent surface of the clay. She scratches and carves into the drawings, adding and removing details. The pin tool is both pencil and eraser, adding white to the drawing. She uses wax to create motifs that are reminiscent of printed patterns.

In Niswonger's work, pattern and color anchor her animals to the pots. They serve as frames, and backgrounds, so that the animals exist in their own narrow space around the pots. Speaking from inside the bowl, horny toad peers around cheese, snakes slither beneath fruit, butterflies flutter.

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