Anna de Jong
When I started taking a course with friends to learn pottery, the love for clay was born and this is still growing. Followed by courses at art school, the ‘orientation’ year for the Academy for Fine Arts in Amsterdam and the Ceramics Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. A few years later I started my own studio.
Artists such as Picasso, Yayoi Kusama, Grayson Perry and others fascinate me. Still nature is the greatest source of inspiration. The endless cycle of the origin and transience of flora and fauna around us. Organic forms with small perfect imperfections are never the same or boring. Building and forming the clay by hand gives the work my own personal touch. The finish with a real golden, platinum or copper layer misleads the viewer. A rich metal look on a fragile skin.
Mainly I create bowls, vases and chalices, but also larger objects and urns, commissioned or as free work.
