Porcelain.
I stretch it, paint it, fold it, going to the limits of its strength, fragility and transparency.
It often leaves me in desperation because of its fragility.
It leaves me breathless with the feeling of happiness to see its fragile intensity.

30.5.08

small 'folded' colored bowls



Ø 11cm. (measured without rim) or ±18cm.(measured with rim)
porcelain, outside oxides and pigments, inside glazed

28.5.08

blue plate



small porcelain plate (Ø 20 cm.) with blue and transparent glaze

25.5.08

'crumpled paper' bowls


'crumpled paper' bowls
porcelain (southern ice)

21.5.08

Tiles for a Street in Oggebbio (Lago Maggiore)



An ancient stone wall with new tiles in a small street in a village
just some hundreds of meters above the lake (Lago Maggiore).
The Village is called Pieggio and is a 'frazione' of
Oggebbio (Verbania).
Met dank aan Marco!

15.5.08

The Fresh Breeze of Your Words




"The Fresh Breeze of Your Words"
(Waaiers / Ventagli / Abanicos - porcelain, silver, gold, silk thread, wax)
has been selected for the
Concurso Internacional de Cerámica de l'Alcora
in exhibition in the Museo de Cerámica de L'Alcora
(near Valencia - Spain))
from
July 10th until September 7th, 2008

13.5.08

'Renaissance' Necklace




thin folded porcelain reinforced at backside with resin,
gold, silver, cotton thread

11.5.08

bird earrings

porcelain, resin, gold

10.5.08

more folded coffee cups


more cups,
the new ones have a different glaze;

again an alkaline one,
it gives such terrific shades of blue and turquoise.
the cup at the left (with a glaze born from an error... which liked a lot) has a rough stone like surface,
while the cup at the right has a soft velvet shine.


1.4.08

flower plates and white & blue cups with a red rim




southern ice porcelain

25.3.08

porcelain jewellery




Treasures at the Lake
with Chiara, Giulia e Margherita

almost all pictures by F.J. Grinovero

20.3.08

Vrolijk Pasen / Buona Pasqua / Happy Easter

folded porcelain cups for 'caffé macchiato' or for 'a caffé marocchino...'


they are slightly higher than usual coffee cups,
so there is space for the milk and / or chocolate...
enjoy!!! more like these.

22.2.08

gekreukelde kommen, dainty & delicate

jewels





brooches, porcelain with silver pin

26.1.08

gekreukelde kommen, borden, kopjes



"dainty and delicate"

25.1.08

'folded paper' bowl






gekreukelde vazen

24.1.08

nog meer gekreukelde kommetjes

19.1.08

jewels ; brooches, rings


small stories and a lullaby




pieces of a letter
a surface of ice blue
some lines of gold
some half forgotten song...



rings

17.1.08

more 'frozen' plates and bowls






porcelain paper-like plates & bowls

4.1.08

folded love letters (large and small)





see also "fragility- some thoughts.."

2.1.08

'frozen paper' plates

detail of plates


'frozen paper' plates differently



I'm at the Lago Maggiore now, in Oggebbio
looking out of the window over the water
it is almost snowing

small white pieces of paper
wishing you a happy new year

29.12.07

a bowl with colored porcelain stripes

15.12.07

'frozen paper' plates and cups and bowls









25.11.07

two blue rose bowls

24.11.07

two plates

22.11.07

two folded mugs