Maiolica

Work is thrown and /or slab constructed using a well-vitrifying light earthenware clay. After bisquing, the work is glazed with a zircon-opacified maiolica glaze, followed by brush application of layered coloured stains and oxides. These are wet-and-dry-blended on-surface, and a sgraffito drawing is lightly sketched through the colour layers to the glaze. The work is glaze fired in oxidation to 1040°C.

Copper Sgraffito

Work is thrown and/or slab constructed using a well-vitrifying light earthenware clay. Sgraffito imagery is scratched directly into the clay, followed by a copper wash, and layered vitreous engobes and stains are applied, both before and after bisque firing. Works may be fired up to four times, with repeated colour and sgraffito interventions, in oxidation to 1040°C.

Contact

Matthias Ostermann (Montreal, Canada)
E-Mail: matthiasostermann@hotmail.com
Tel./fax: (514) 526-4180

Prime Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
E-Mail: art@primegallery.ca
Website: www.primegallery.ca
Tel.: (416) 593-5750
Fax (416) 593-0942