Night, Early Summer

Tim Christensen

Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Night Early Summer Daffodil Wall Tile Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Night Early Summer Daffodil Wall Tile Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Night Early Summer Daffodil Wall Tile Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • $550.00

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils
Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
                         -William Wordsworth

Not much says Spring is here quite like the blooming daffodils. Bright almost fluorescent against the still greening grass, they are early messengers of emerging color. To share a bouquet is to celebrate new beginnings and friendship.

While this salt-fired porcelain piece may not bear the vibrant yellow of its honoree, the luminosity is very much there. Bright lines against the dark background capture a full posey to be enjoyed while sitting in a favorite chair. Welcome Spring, we’ve missed you so!

A great technical detail to this piece is the wall hanging component made of wood and a metal tack to safely install the artwork to have it display an inch away from the wall. The effect is shadow play that pokes fun of the dimensionality of flattening imagery through the Sgraffito craft form.

- Measures 8.25” x 7.75”
- Salt-fired porcelain
- Sgraffito
- Installation component included

Ceramic artist Tim Christensen divides his time between Portland and Downeast Maine. At his off-grid studio Tim finds inspiration for his porcelain pieces. Schools of herring, flocks of chattering songbirds, and all matter of sea life are skillfully carved on the surfaces of his hand-thrown and constructed forms.

Tim began working in clay in 1999, and he has been etching his black and white pieces since 2004. Using the centuries-old decorative technique of Sgraffito, Tim carves intricate worlds teeming with life and energy. Firing much of his work at Watershed Center for Ceramic Art in Newcastle, Maine, Tim finds that the collaborative Midcoast institution's salt- and wood-fire kilns add variety and allow for the possibility of happy accidents, which are common in the ceramic world and offer welcome play on the artist's meticulous carvings.

Tim has shown his work around the world and recently completed his first book. Written with co-author Carri Lange, “Reflect, Adapt, and Persevere” he tells of his travels and thoughts on environmental philosophy.

From the Artist:

My work is about the ever-changing web of relationships that surround us. Individuals make contact to create relationships, relationships collide to create systems. These systems change over time in response to the other systems around them. I envision my world as an infinite collection of active counterparts, individuals symbiotically wriggling and moving and jostling for space and resources.

In this sea of systems, of relationships, I sit and try to untangle it, sit and try to communicate what I see changing, being created, or disappearing into the past.

This is why I work in our most durable medium, porcelain, and in our longest unbroken historical record, pottery. My work, functional in the information I convey, will be understandable to anyone with an eyeball and the ability to think abstractly.

My goal is to make work which still speaks clearly in 10,000 years, and more importantly, to convey the complexity and richness of the world in which I am most fortunate to live.

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