I was commissioned to go behind the scenes on how beautifully handcrafted the work of Mervyn Gers makes and produces there Ceramics.
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.Source
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.Source
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
Make it stand out.
Ceramics is the oldest form of technology After cooking meat. baking clay was the first thing that humans did to chemically alter our environment on purpose. You can’t make rice without cooking it in some kind of vessel, so clay pots go hand in hand with agriculture – our whole evolution is connected to it. There’s only a short period of history in which people haven’t been connected with pottery. There’s something incredibly grounding about an experience that connects you with the past like that”.
Ceramic objects are made by combining naturally occurring raw materials, such as clay, earthen minerals, and water, and shaping them into forms using handbuilding, wheel-throwing, or mold casting techniques. Once shaped, the object is fired in a kiln at a high temperature.