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Anne Mette Hjortshøj is not quite sure when she first took an interest in ceramics: | |
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wasn’t something that just came about out of the blue –
I’ve always been interested in it,” she says. Therefore she attended classes at folk high school, mostly for pottery, fully realising that it is a difficult road but that is important to try and perhaps fail rather than not to have tried at all. Now seeing Anne Mette's wonderful ceramics one can see that failing was never an option. She applied to The Glass and Ceramics School on Bornholm and graduated in 2000. To improve her skills and gain further experience, she spent eighteen months working in Wales with the potter Phil Rogers and in the USA, Australia and Korea. Anne Mette Hjortshøj works with salt-glazed ceramics – a technique from medieval France and Germany. Salt-glazing is based on firing the items up to stoneware temperature 1300°C and then introducing salt in to the kiln. The high temperatures breaks the salt down, creating a chemical compound which combines with the clay to form the glaze. Anne Mette Hjortshøj generally sticks to the natural reddish-brown hues of the clay, but these vary depending on the type of clay she uses. The main focus of her work is production of utility items such as dishes, pots, cups, jugs, teapots and plates, but they are not uniform, so she describes them as ‘unique utility items’. |
| Vase: Salt-glazed stoneware vase side fired on shells. Size: h.23.0cms Ø. 13.0.cms  Ref: OC/AMH2 Click on this image for a larger view |
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Bowl: Salt-glazed porcelain. Size: h 5.5cms Ø. 10.0.cms Price: £25 Ref: OC/AMH3 Click on this image for a larger view |
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Oval Bowl: Salt-glazed porcelain. Size: h.11.0cms w.15.0.cms d.9.5 Price: £40 Ref: OC/AMH4 Click on this image for a larger view |
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