Andariegos, Honorable Mention, National Crafts Award, 2017
This is a group of four ovoid pottery volumes made from the potter's wheel: assembled and decorated. The patterns are made in the raw clay, with contrasting engobe of graphite colour and exposed paste in stoneware. The application of ash glaze gives a reddish tone in the incisions.
For Javier Wijnants it all started as a hobby at the age of 13. When he turned 17 he began to work as an assistant and apprentice in a ceramics worksh ...