Elmhurst
Host: Tatyana Schierl in the backyard of her home & studio
Tatyana Schierl grew up in Moscow, Russia. Once in America, she attended Macalester College where she fell in love with ceramics. While raising her four children, Tatyana always found a way to get her hands in the mud. However she finally became a full time potter in 2019. Being an avid hiker, she pulls images of nature into her work, finding inspiration in the ordinary. Tatyana draws her images on rice paper. She then applies them to her wares with slips, incorporating underglazes and mason stains for coloring.
David makes small batch functional pottery with an emphasis on showing the natural beauty of materials and process. He strives for surfaces that are rich, natural and tactile, as beautiful to the hand as to the eye. Increasingly, his forms and surfaces reflect the beauty he finds in the Midwest landscape that surrounds him.
Kate makes functional stoneware pots that formally draw from rural Wisconsin’s cocoons/chrysalides, bones, and seed pods. Her terra sigillata color palette is that of wild flowers, animal bones, leaves, and stones. Subtle and distinct color shifts encourage closer inspection, consideration and reflection. Simple patterns disrupt the visuals of the forms, maintaining their path, unaffected by the undulations of the form.
Nishi’s style is based on the simplicity and functionality of Japanese pottery, using natural materials and colors typical in nature. He believes that pottery should not be the center of attention on the dinner table--it should be simple and attractive, while discreetly adding to the delicious appearance of the food. He strives to create pottery that resonates with me and brings out my inner peace.