Alice Adler Ceramics
Alice is a ceramic artist who specialises in a unique version of Nerikomi, using coloured clays to create vibrant patterns in her hand-built porcelain pieces. This unique technique involves slicing, punching out, arranging and laminating together various coloured clays to create intricate, detailed designs that are both structural and decorative. This means the decoration, which at first looks to be painted on the surface, is rather applied through the body of each piece and adds a richness and tactility. This distinctive process allows her to retain clarity and sharpness in the shapes and lines she creates, whilst also permitting the malleability of the clay to have its own affect on each piece.
Her work is high fired, unglazed, sanded and polished at various stages of the making process to ensure the surface is soft and silky to the touch. The tactility of these pieces makes you want to pick them up and touch them. Although great simply as decorative pieces, Alice also uses a ceramic surface sealer called Liquid Quartz, making all pieces waterproof, food safe and dishwasher safe and thus can be used as functional ware if desired. All pieces are made with grogged porcelain which gives it a matte, ‘papery’ look, and high fire ceramic stains, mixed to create colour variations.
