Rhoda Karpin Sassafras Ceramics

BLENDED STORIES My ceramic/pottery practice has been influenced by a number of clay workers both in Australia and overseas, people from the past as well as cotemporary ceramicists. I am also very interested in ancient and Australian indigenous art and pottery. I have created a palette for my hand built work by blending different clays and slips in forms that are derived from ancient and classical shapes altering them to produce a more contemporary feel. My mark making has grown out of a deep interest in ancient and prehistoric wall paintings and the work of post impressionist artists. I have come to clay in my “more mature years,”  so I have, at my finger tips, a lifetime of experience living in a changing and developing Australia.