Doxa Sivropoulos
Ceramics

 

Greece, the country I come from, is full of wonderful mountains. Sometimes the mountains into the sea. Sometimes the landscape is kinder and approachable, and where land meets sea one finds sand and white or volcanic colourful pebbles smoothed and eroded by time and the elements.

I must have been learning unconsciously from this natural world, because when I started creating "homes" for my conscious preoccupation, humans and their feelings, these images became dominant. I do not try to imitate nature and I never work from pictures, though I have a respectable collection of pebbles brought back from Greece as souvenirs.

Sheltered Life - a ceramic piece by Doxa Sivropoulos
Two ceramic female figures

 

 

Amimoni
Greece provided the second source of inspiration, the images of ourselves and more specifically the Cycladic figurines. We still do not know what they represented, deities or humans, objects of worship or comfort. But then the Gods of ancient Greece were very human and reflected the best and worst of our nature. This anthropocentric element is the basis of my work. Creating images that are recognisable and thus comforting.
I use paper clays because they allow me to work without fear with different clays at various stages of wetness, and thus texture becomes an integral part of the material. Colour is provided by different clays or by adding oxides to the clays. Sometimes I apply oxides or engobes after the first firing but very sparingly.

 

 

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