mdh-admin, auteur op Keramiek Atelier and Galerie Amsterdam Marjoke de Heer

Memory Stones

New in the collection are my memory stones. They are sturdy, simple and natural in design. A memory stone refers to an event, a moment, a memory, a person… to mark, celebrate, cherish and remember. Who doesn’t know it … taking found stones with you from a holiday or walk, or the beautiful monoliths and rock formations that rise impressively in a landscape as powerful standing stones … they inspire me to simple, organic forms in which my glazes determine the landscape of the new stone form … it is

Van baggerslib naar servies - Keramiek Atelier and Galerie Amsterdam Marjoke de Heer

From dredging sludge to tableware

When a landscape architect with a bucket of clay from Groningen shows up at the beginning of 2019, I am immediately full of attention and interested. Could I do something with it? A few weeks ago, 2 years later, he was at our door again, again with a bucket of clay.. delicious!! It is an interesting story – the Clay Ripening Pilot – in which governments, nature organisations, knowledge institutes and the business community are engaged in the useful application of sludge as a circular building material. Sludge that causes

Altars and Urns

For many years I have been making little pots of memory, (mini) urns, altars and small memorial stones for at home or outside. Time and again it is special and honorable to be able to contribute to the creation of a personal and special place for remembrance and / or commemoration. Life, death and mourning itself are not static, which is why I like to give my work the opportunity to attach small additions of a moment or memory to it. ….. by means of a string, magnet, niche, and

Van houtas en asglazuur tot relatiegeschenk - Keramiek Atelier Marjoke de Heer

From wood ash and ash glaze to corporate gift

When Sander Overeinder -the kind and enterprising owner of Restaurant As in Amsterdam- approached me for a special gift for his relations to mark the special moment of saying goodbye to his restaurant As and the arrival of www.broodvanas.nl, my heart immediately started to beat faster … … not only because as a ceramicist I feel very close to the real artisan bread bakers and the beautiful bread crusts, but also AS ..! Sander baked pizzas in his restaurant in a wood-fired pizza oven .. using pure ash from wood

OER plates

Fired earth and reduced stoneware in its purest form… you can see that in my Oer plates: tough, quirky but also modern and contemporary and always one of a kind! I have inspired the shape on the old, battered tin plates of early times, as if they had been in a ditch for years and had been fished up again during dredging work. The Oer plates were created from a special project in which I worked with clay from the Miljuschka ditch. Read more about this. The large plates are

Celadon

Since 1994 I do enjoy making tableware and vases with different celadon glazes according to my own recipe: made on the potter’s wheel, basic and functionally designed in which the different clays form a connection with the special Celadon glazes. Celadon glazes are famous Chinese glazes and were developed in China between 960 and 1279 during the Sung period. The story goes that the name of Celadon was derived from an Egyptian prince “Salah-ed-Din”, who in 1170 would have given the Sultan of Damascus greenish glazed porcelain with the appearance

Working on a project from inspiration!

Memory Stones

From dredging sludge to tableware

Altars and Urns

From wood ash and ash glaze to corporate gift

OER plates

Celadon

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