Kingfisher Stream

Tim Christensen

Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Kingfisher Stream Bowl Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Kingfisher Stream Bowl Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Kingfisher Stream Bowl Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Kingfisher Stream Bowl Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Kingfisher Stream Bowl Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Kingfisher Stream Bowl Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • $950.00

Along the edge where the forest meets sea, there is a stream that cuts through the pines and fern. Where salt meets fresh, green meets blue. Here we find the Kingfisher. Sitting in the branches over the sandy bank where they’ve built their nest burrow, scanning the clear waters for a meal.

The small crested diver plunges into the depths with his broad bill set on his target. Popping back to the surface with his reward, a small fish or frog, he’ll carry down the corridor to his mate and hungry chicks. These brook trout may be a bit too big for him to catch. He can always sit and watch and dream. 

This hand thrown porcelain bowl by Tim Christensen is inspired by the nature around his home and studio in Downeast Maine. With bold black trees, a geometric edge, and a footed bottom full of pattern and fish, this bowl can stand alone as a beautiful centerpiece or fill for celebrating with family and friends.

- Measures 4” x 10.25” 
- Salt-fired porcelain
- Sgraffito
- Wash by hand

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 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, offering 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”  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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