About Paulina van Bavel

Interior view with young clay artists

Clay is so wonderfully malleable, it feels so smooth and warm when polished, I hate to put a glaze over it, the natural colors are so beautiful when polished.
My pots are fragile, the earthenware clay surfaces are scratchable, low fired and porous, still very absorbent, holding the carbon permenantly and changes made in the firing process.
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My studio in action

My Grandkids love to be in her!

Undergoing remodeling for a “clean, dust free space” to design, draw and polish .

Undergoing remodeling for a “clean, dust free space” to design, draw and polish .

Colors and shapes swirl around the forms depending upon the oxidation or removal of oxygen from the iron in the clay. Chance, yet control, makes each piece unique
— The artist
The porch enclosed as my new dirty work space, kilns will go out here in a shed.

The porch enclosed as my new dirty work space, kilns will go out here in a shed.