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rikaherbst

Handmade porcelain art & lights.
Woodfirer 🔥 Cultural Representative 🍃 Member of the International Academy of Ceramics

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Posted @withregram • @bohlokoastudio Posted @wit

Posted @withregram • @bohlokoastudio Posted @withregram • @pottery_nat Dreaming of sunny days & wildflower season🪻putting the finishing touches on this mug - carving is the best part of the process.

Tool used is the L2 stylus.

#pottery #handcrafted #ceramics #potteryartist #clay #clayartists #processart #wheelthrown #sgraffito #sgraffitopottery #carved #florals #floralart #sgraffitotools #diamondcoretools

Posted @withregram • @ceramicsnow The first Sout

Posted @withregram • @ceramicsnow The first South African Clay Awards exhibition, held at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery and Clay Museum in Durbanville, outside Cape Town, from November to December 2024, marked a significant milestone for South African ceramics. A distinguished panel of ten internationally recognized ceramic experts selected fifty works from over five hundred entries.

With excellence in craftsmanship as a given, the overall, most dominant features of this exhibition that are evident include a great diversity in creative expression; clear indications of an emerging South African “ceramic voice,” and in line with international contemporary trends, the creation of abstract form used as metaphor that express an existential zeitgeist in an increasingly anxious world.

📙 Read Ann Marais’s article on the first South African Clay Awards exhibition in Ceramics Now (link in bio)

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What have YOU been working on in the studio??? Thi

What have YOU been working on in the studio??? This week in the studio we are trimming tea bowls, shooting footage, and prepping for a very exciting NCECA.

#mudtools #nceca #clay #pottery

Beautiful Betty’s Bay and the stunning ceramics

Beautiful Betty’s Bay and the stunning ceramics of John the Potter

The stunning carving by @juliettedavin Posted @wit

The stunning carving by @juliettedavin Posted @withregram • @juliettedavin Wishing everyone a very happy 2025! This is my first posting of the year and it feels good to be back! This vase was difficult to carve. I’ve carved this pattern several times but never this deep. My @diamondcoretools P-18 blade is super sharp and a little flexible so it takes a lot of concentration to turn the blade into the curve and finish the cut in just the right spot when I’m that deep in the clay. These sharp blades can glide quickly through the clay and get a little out of control if you’re not careful, but I love a challenge!!

Tool used: @diamondcoretools P18 Straight U Tip 6 mm Carving Tool
Clay: @lagunaclay Bmix5 no grog

Posted @withregram • @diamondcoretools In today’s livestream, Nicholai shows the best techniques for using blades like the P1, X1 and FP0. Remember to pull the blades through your clay, not push. 🔪🏺💎

Testing surface decoration with clay, slips, solub

Testing surface decoration with clay, slips, soluble salts, oxides and holes……#rikaherbst #texturedclayvessels #ceramics-daily#makersgonnamake #handmadeceramic#clayartist#Claytime#loveceramics#Ceramiclife#glazelover#makersmovement #ceramicarts#ceramics#pottery.handmade#glazes#studioceramics#ceramicsdaily#southafricanceramics#ceramicsmagazine#handmade

Testing surface decoration with clay, slips, solub

Testing surface decoration with clay, slips, soluble salts, oxides and holes……

#rikaherbst #texturedclayvessels
#ceramics-daily
#makersgonnamake
#handmadeceramic
#clayartist
#Claytime
#loveceramics
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#handmade

Pinched tea bowl in dark clay, carved through whit

Pinched tea bowl in dark clay, carved through white slip with a nuka glaze. The tree seems to have snowflakes ❄️🤍

Pinched tea bowl in dark clay, carved through whit

Pinched tea bowl in dark clay, carved through white slip with a nuka glaze. The tree seems to have snowflakes ❄️🤍

Starting the new year exploring some very rough c

Starting the new year exploring some very rough clay and slips……kurinuki cup with celadon glaze

Starting the new year exploring some very rough c

Starting the new year exploring some very rough clay and slips……kurinuki cup with celadon glaze

Starting the new year exploring some very rough c

Starting the new year exploring some very rough clay and slips……kurinuki cup with celadon glaze

Ending this year by saving a baby snake, and unpac

Ending this year by saving a baby snake, and unpacking the first new tests out of the kiln! Leaping into the new year, my wish for you in the words of Jacques Brel:
“I wish you endless dreams and the furious desire to make a few come true. I wish you to love what must be loved and forget what must be forgotten. I wish you passions, I wish you passions, I wish you silences, I wish you birdsong as you wake up and children’s laughter. I wish you to respect the differences of others, because the merit and value of each person is often to be discovered. I wish you to resist the enlusionment, indifference and negative virtues of our time, and finally I wish you never to give up searching, adventure, adventure, life, love, because life is a wonderful adventure and no reason should be there give up without fighting a tough battle. I wish you above all to be you, be proud of being and happy, because happiness is our true destiny. »
(Jacques Brel)

Last bisque from the kiln this year! Will start t

Last bisque from the kiln this year! Will start the new year with results of oxide/glaze experiment samples.

Love seeing our Flexible Diamond Pads being used t

Love seeing our Flexible Diamond Pads being used to give @calvinmasculpts a beautiful shine on the feet of his mugs. 👍👏🏺💎

Bohlokoa Studio : last orders for the year will be

Bohlokoa Studio : last orders for the year will be 18 December 🎄🎁💝

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The magic of raw clay—so full of potential and p

The magic of raw clay—so full of potential and possibilities.As Lupita Nyong’o said, “Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.”What will you create today?

The magic of raw clay—so full of potential and p

The magic of raw clay—so full of potential and possibilities.

As Lupita Nyong’o said, “Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.”

What will you create today?

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