Suzanne Vilmain ~ Raku Ceramic Artist
Fiery, and emphatic, Vilmain's raku never been seen before. She accomplishes an array of dazzling miraculous sometimes blindingly shiny or otherwise damp and foggy atmospheric surfaces of fused smoke and metal based glazes. Vilmain mixes up a wide range of colored finishes - copper, pink, glossy black pools, a mossy green lace or meat tenderizer needles repetitively stamped and pressed onto the body of the clay yielding a complex visual vocabulary. Fomenting multi stripped or plaid brushed plates, platters, pyramids, peeling pomegranates, melted oozed marbles within lidded boxes or bowls, stacks of bubbled and fried matte-glazed burnt dice and phenomenally towering, teetering, cat-in-a-hat hand-built vessels. Spark = Smoke = Joy VILMAIN RAKU.