Finland’s largest furniture, design and interior decoration fair was held in Helsinki last week, from 13 to 17 September. I went there to find out what the status of ceramics was in Finland. I wanted to uncover answers to these following questions: ”Are there any ceramics related shows?” and ”How ceramics are used in the […]

Yesterday it finally happened, we loaded the first batch of our bone-dry greenware for bisque firing (the first time the pots go through high-temperature heating).
 Greenware is really fragile and must be loaded into the kiln with a great deal of care. While we were loading our works in, our teacher Kirsti explained to us […]

”One has to immerse oneself in one’s surroundings and intensely study nature or one’s subject to understand how to recreate it.” —Paul Cezanne Nature has always been one of the biggest muses for artists and designers. So I guess that was the reason why one of our first assignments was to study plants – forms […]

One thing I love about clay is its recyclability. I can reuse my clay as many times as I want before it’s fired. Even if it has dried out I can transform it into plastic again. It’s really simple to do, the only things you need are some time, effort and muscle power. Here’s how […]

”You align yourself with an universal experience, because man has always tried to understand and form a relationship with the natural world by recording parts of its beauty…” Mary Rogers – On pottery and porcelain So here I am, living my dream. I actually still haven’t really taken it all in – I’m really doing this, […]

I’m excited to be here and to share (a bit nervous about it) my journey ”how to become a professional ceramist”. It might take me many years, but I’m ready! I’ve been doing ceramics as a hobby for the past three years, but as the years went on I wanted to do more and more. Slowly […]