Lise’s primary interests lie in creating decorative and sculptural forms with highly textured, expressive surfaces. The work is deeply rooted in the rugged landscape she grew up in in Norway, imbuing a sense of place, timelessness and quiet beauty within each piece, as if they were found, rather than made.
Lise employs a variety of techniques, manipulating, carving and altering thrown forms and slabs to create organic shapes and structures. She works in porcelain and various stoneware clays, applying a multi layered surface finish of oxides, slips, engobes, glazes and ash in a painterly and abstract expression.
These surface treatments suffuse the works with a sense of history, of time spent exposed and weathered by the natural elements. Each piece rich with texture and colour, inviting touch and a sensory experience as much as a visual one.
All is silent but the wind – a reflection on the vast empty spaces in the Norwegian mountains.
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Throughout his long career Peter has always sought pathways to the development of new ideas. Often this is a slow process, but sometimes a particular event speeds things along.
Partaking of two residencies in China recently, where Peter worked in porcelain at high temperatures, led him to develop a new body of work, made alongside his existing practice to which Peter is still deeply committed.
This new exhibition represents the outcome of Peter’s working practice.
'This exhibition explores objects that express a quiet equilibrium: fragile, shifting forms that exist in a state of delicate imbalance. Their stillness is easily disturbed, as if the act of holding too tightly might cause something essential to disappear. The works reflect an interest in forms that resist perfection, remaining slightly unresolved, unsettled, and quietly alive.' Akiko Hirai