KRISTEN ANGELOS

I create stoneware and porcelain pottery with both handbuilding and wheel thrown elements. I use both retractive and additive surface features, as well as manipulating the forms to create geometric and organic movement. I study and reconfigure glaze recipes to create unique glaze colors that when layered create interactions and motion. 

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When making my work, I consider practical functionality and user experience. My work centers around meditative interaction, like slowly sipping tea or caring for plants. I would like the users to engage with the work in a way that they feel wonder, calm, contemplation and joy; encouraged to admire the tiny details. I want users to treasure the delicate nature of the work and enjoy that each piece is one-of-a-kind and handmade.  I am inspired by and have a great fondness for tea drinking, organic textures and shapes derived from nature , antique finds, houseplants, color interaction and chemistry. 
 

Miryana Mihaylova

I paint, draw and hand build dark branches, wavy coil structures, flames out of shadows, shrubs and silhouettes.

The objects that I create cast shadows out of which subdued hues of rainbow emerge in the
sunlight. Air flows through the forms. The time is passing by and we are changing with it.