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May 2020: NZZ, Z Magazin  September 2019; Video Interview with Fredrik Haren 'Wondering in search of energy'   July 2019: 'schönerwohnen' June 2019: 'Traumhaus' May 2019: Interview in 'TroughObjects' July/August 2018: 'Ideales Heim' June 2018: 'Meter Magazine' September 2017: An article in the Magazine: Ceramics Southern Africa, 09/2017 by Ronnie Watt December 2017:...

01 Mai, 2020

Last day in the studio before I will start cleaning: My studio will be closed from July 15 – August 15. Say hello if you are interested in my ceramic work! When I am not on holiday, my gallery and studio is open from Tuesday to Friday, 13-18h My new online store – with teabowls only – is now open! #tea #ceramics #tableware #tealovers #pottery #poetry #teabowl #beauty #zen #design #art #crafts #contemporaryart #making #simple #philosophy #architecture #series #photography #stilllife #zurich #switzerland #translucent #photooftheday #exhibition #interior #japan #picoftheday #scenery #white

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14 Juli, 2017

Tableware trio – plates and a small cup: All of these wonderful pieces are wheel thrown with stoneware clay and coated with a white matte glaze. Classical ones – you will find them in my shop in Zurich. And: Safe the date! Saturday, July 1st, 18-20 h I warmly invit you for a summer drink: Please come! I present a lot of my new ceramic work in my studiogallery and you can drink some green tea with my tea bowls or of course also a glass if wine or what else. Say hello if you are interested in my ceramic work! From Tuesday to Friday, 13-18h I am in my studio and shop in Zurich – or, if you are not around, write me a message or check my website. My new online store – with teabowls only – is now open! #ceramics #eat #tableware #pottery #stoneware #handmade #potter #zen #meditation #art #crafts #contemporaryart #making #simple #philosophy #design #weekend #photography #artist #zurich #switzerland #clay #photooftheday #poetry #exhibition #series #black #picoftheday #scenery #invitation

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21 Juni, 2017

The breakfast set viewed from a different angle. The set consists of plate, cup and saucer. This is the version in porcelain, hand thrown. The forms that I throw are similar since many years, I just make small variations. The larger plate has a higher edge for the first time and has grooves on the inside. The surfaces are glazed transparent and shiny, except on the outside of the larger plate where there is no glaze. I made various sets with different glazes. From matt to shiny, without any glaze, glazed inside, glazed outside or both. At the end I was convinced by the version you see here. All my works get stamped with the letter “H” somewhere. Only a few pieces get the red thread mark. Which ones get thee mark? In don’t know how I choose them. I work intuitively and decide while throwing which pieces I pierce so that they can get the mark. I have to pierce while the porcelain or clay is leather-hard, and when glazing I have to be careful not to apply any glazing to the hole so it will really stay open. Sometimes this will not work precisely and I get angry when I see a piece where the hole is filled with glazing after firing. I love details, besides working on forms this my second passion – to add some details to the work that will make it more refined. Probably this method of working has to do with my biography. I studied architecture, later art history and philosophy, before I turned to ceramics two decades ago. I will write more about all of this in some of the next posts.

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03 Januar, 2017

My first post of the year: I start with showing you the new porcelain collection I have made. Nothing new about the technical aspects: All pieces are handthrown. I want to go on with porcelain tableware this year and soon I will present new works. As you probably realized, I change the material and work with both, stoneware and porcelain – I cannot decide for one only. When I started my own pottery I was stressed by this because I forced myself to working with only one material. But I was not able to keep this up….In the last years I accepted that this is my nature and that I need the variety in my life. I will show you the results during the next months…Do you remember? I told about an old house from the 16h century I bought in the South of Switzerland? I will renovate it this year and I will open my mountain studio and a gallery there. The photo of the porcelain tableware is made in this house, it has a wooden room with a very special atmosphere that I like a lot.

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02 Januar, 2017

Go happy and in best of company into a 2017!

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31 Dezember, 2016

I wish you all a wonderful 2017 ! Thank you very very much for the support during this year, I am deeply grateful.

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31 Dezember, 2016

Finally some quiet days after loud ones – a corner in my house in the southern part of Switzerland: A vase, a present from my teacher. He revealed me everything about pottery during my five years of studies with him….well, quite everything. Long time ago. Precious memories.

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29 Dezember, 2016

Porcelain vase, handthrown, Limoges porcelain from France – my favourite one. It is a work without any glaze. It is an unique vase, now in a private collection.

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27 Dezember, 2016

White porcelain plate, handthrown – detail: There are a lot of them in use these days……A happy Sunday and enjoy the free time!

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25 Dezember, 2016

A colorful December 24 to wherever you are: Take care!

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24 Dezember, 2016

And for the last time this year: My exhibition is still open. I show ceramics in three rooms and offer a quiet place – also tea and sweet little things… would be great to see you!

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23 Dezember, 2016

Just black for green tea. Handthrown and coated with an iron glaze.

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21 Dezember, 2016

Two black bowls, stoneware and handthrown, coated with a black matte glaze. Today they leave me.

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20 Dezember, 2016

I made a lot of porcelain vases for the Museum Rietberg, Zurich. All pieces are handthrown and there is just one with the same shape. I loved this work very much because I have no limits from the client but only liberty – hope you love these vases, too!

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18 Dezember, 2016

I was looking for something else and found this photo from a beautiful exhibition I had in 2008. One of the works that I chose to show was this quite big bowl, stoneware, handhrown and coated with a blue celadon glaze. Wondering if it is still alive? But I do not even remember the client who bought it….

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15 Dezember, 2016

Winter impression of my exhibition – vases, stoneware with iron sprinkles, handthrown and coated with my special white and matte glaze. Sitting in the studio after work with a green tea or a black coffee, some books, vases and music around: A little moment in paradise.

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14 Dezember, 2016

Lots of teabowls, all handthrown, stoneware and coated with different celadon glazes. To make teabowls is like meditation for me. I need this because sometimes I am a restless and impatient person – at least my husband says so. I am not sure if he is right…..but anyway: The result are many teabowls.

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12 Dezember, 2016

Espresso cups, handthrown in porcelain – I covered the cups with a transparent and a red glaze and was curious what will happen during firing: That is the result. Regarding aesthetics, I am not yet sure if I like it or not – but I am certain: To drink my strong black coffee out of them is great!

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11 Dezember, 2016

A simple breakfast set in black stoneware, handthrown. Today these cups and plates were so much loved – thanks to all the people who were around in my studio, it was a wonderful Saturday, with a lot of sunshine, tea and coffee!

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10 Dezember, 2016

This is a very fine, white and transluscent porcelain bowl, handthrown with all my concentration and skills I had – the result seems quiet and delicate and the bowl is one of my favourite works: Today it founds a new owner….

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08 Dezember, 2016

White as a concept. A set of porcelain teabowls, they are white as snow on a winter day. Cold outside and I am waiting for warmer days….

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07 Dezember, 2016

Vase – handthrown dark clay coated with a white matte glaze. This is the last piece of a series of twelve. Maybe I keep it for my house and my flowers: I am sure all potters know the feeling when a favourite work is gone, it is often followed from a kind of emptiness. That is why I keep a work from time to time because I try to avoid this feeling. Silly, I know….

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06 Dezember, 2016

Teacups coated with a green celadon craquele glaze – there are always some of these in my shop because I love them very much: I started with this shape more then ten years ago and it is still one of my favourites and I think it is a timeless classic. I also make them in porcelain or in a black clay as well as in regular stoneware in different colors: In a warm brown, an ice blue and in the green you see on the pic.

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04 Dezember, 2016

Porcelain teabowl – I like the very fine form of the bowl and it is a pleasure to drink a warm tea – especially when it is so horrible cold outside: below zero celsius here in Switzerland .

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01 Dezember, 2016

My Japan trip comes to an end: Last day in Tokyo with three of my teacups, an iron black one, a translucent porcelain one and a celadon green one. I spent very interesting days in Japan and met wonderful people around, drunk a lot of tea and coffee as well and and and….. I really hope to come back one day: Million thanks to all the Japanese, you are just great!

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25 November, 2016

Still in Japan – passed wonderful hours on Naoshima.

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21 November, 2016

Tokyo and Tadao Ando and colors in November – my Japan trip has started very colorful with sunshine and rain at the same day. I am jetlagged but happy to be here.

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16 November, 2016

Holiday – and a last teatime in my workshop before travelling: For the next two weeks I am not around – I hope to see a lot of beautiful and interesting things.

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11 November, 2016

Sugar hearts in a quite big porcelain bowl – love it! This is a handthrown bowl, very white because I worked with a special porcelain I mixed by myself. Bowls are available in my online shop.

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07 November, 2016

Happy Friday: I wish everybody a weekend full of red roses! My roses are in one of my vases, handthrown – as always……

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04 November, 2016

I made twenty teabowls with a stoneware clay and coated them with this wonderful white and matte glaze: Here you can see one of my favourite bowls. All of them have more or less the same shape but with minimal differences because I am not working with a measure instrument but only with my intuition. Today I was very happy to drink my afternoon tea from one of my new tea bowls.

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02 November, 2016

I know, the summer over – but I am still dreaming: I remember the summer table with the vase, and the cups and all the other things – it was such a wonderful sunny and very warm day! Miss it….

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01 November, 2016

The kitchen in my house has a copper cover and I am absolutely in love with the porcelain bowl on it: The bowl – as usual – is handthrown with limoges porcelain and very white and clear. You can fill in quite everything: Tea, coffee, icecream, nuts, a little plant – it is up to you!

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30 Oktober, 2016

This is an original small wooden cupboard from the 16th century in the old house I am renovating as a workshop and gallery in the South of Switzerland. I check the possibilities to present the works: Here for exemple four of my porcelain teabowls. Hope you like it….

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26 Oktober, 2016

Another evening in autumn and another opportunity to drink tea: The teapot is an iron work from a japonese artist, the small black teabowl is a work of mine, handthrown and coated with a special iron glaze. I am in love with this set!

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22 Oktober, 2016

Teabowls for macha tea, handthrown in stoneware and coated with an iron glaze, I made quite a lot of them: winter is coming.

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18 Oktober, 2016

One of my handhrown porcelain vase, travelling in Italy.

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17 Oktober, 2016

Simply a teabowl – handthrown in porcelain. Today there is a rainy day in Italy – teatime….

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13 Oktober, 2016

Another scene from the ‘new’ old house I am renovating as a pottery and gallery in the South of Switzerland: This small cupboard is now cleaned! It was hard work but fortunately I had help…. and offers now a beautiful place for a big bowl, handthrown in stoneware and coated with an dark iron glaze. There are a lot of special spaces in this building and I am happy to show you some of them also in the future.

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12 Oktober, 2016

Teatime after a first renovation step: These two teabowls are very very delicate, so delicate that they seemed to have a light within – they are so translucient and fine. Handthrown porcelain at its very best, done with white porcelain from Limoges. To throw and trim so extremely fine is a work that needs all my experience of more than 20 years and a lot of concentration. And the feeling of drinking tea from them is unique and precious. #ceramics #porcelain #teabowl #pottery #tea #making #clay #simple #minimalism #modern #art #contemporaryart #glaze #fff #zurich #picoftheday #photo #style #zen #japan #korea #interiordesign #architecture #home #crafts #series #stilllife #perfection #details #design

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09 Oktober, 2016

One of the details in my ‘new’ house that I started to renovate: It is a very old building from 1589 and it is on the south side of Sitzerland. Some of the walls are black from the smoke of the open fires, I really love it! Two monks were living there more than four hundred years ago and next year it is me who will live and work there with my pottery, at least part time.

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07 Oktober, 2016

Done! All 68 teabowls are trimmed and in about four days they will be ready for the bisquit firing. It was quite a lot of throwing……I worked with four different stoneware clays and with a white and black porcelain: I am very very curious especially about the result from the black porcelain because it is the first time I am working with. Hope to show a perfect result here in about two weeks – fingers crossed! #ceramics #pottery #tea #making #clay #simple #minimalism #modern #art #contemporaryart #glaze #fff #zurich #picoftheday #photo #style #zen #japan #korea #interiordesign #architecture #home #homesweethome #potterhead #crafts #series #stilllife #perfection #details #design

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04 Oktober, 2016

Stoneware vases – different shapes, clays and details: Handthrown and glazed with a matt white glaze. They are now available in my online shop via website www.helga-ritsch/en/online-shop ! #ceramics #pottery #vase #making #clay #simple #minimalism #modern #art #contemporaryart #glaze #fff #zurich #picoftheday #photo #style #zen #japan #korea #interiordesign #architecture #home #homesweethome #potterhead #crafts #series #stilllife #perfection #details #design

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03 Oktober, 2016

Some pieces from my collection are now in Singapore – I am very very happy about: Thank you so much @waltc94 @waltc94 ・・・ Celebrating International Coffee Day with a lovely cup of Java Nangka Natural coffee, brewed with the Torch Mountain dripper and Takahiro Shizuku kettle, into @jonosmart carafes, and served in celadon beauties by @helga_ritsch_keramikerin #ceramics #bowl #coffee #tea #tableware #celadon #singapore #zurich #switzerland #art #handmade #contemporaryart #clay #stilllife #internationalcoffeeday #perfection #details #shipping #shopping #fff #minimalism #series #picoftheday #photooftheday #fff #drink #food #architecture #lifestyle #japan

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02 Oktober, 2016

Teabowls in the making – 50 Different pieces are waiting for trimming or the bisquit firing. I will finish them by the end of the next week and the fill up my shelves here in Zurich and also my online shop. #ceramics #porcelain #tea #teabowl #series #pottery #tableware #perfection #drink #style #details #zen #clay #crafts #handmade #fff #picoftheday #photooftheday #photo #handmade #simple #modern #stilllife #elegant #design #contemporaryart #art #zurich #switzerland #japan

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02 Oktober, 2016

Another of my handthrown porcelain bowls – for tea or coffee or whatever you like! #ceramics #tableware #pottery #porcelain #japan #korea #zen #zurich #switzerland #making #stilllife #simple #shape #form #modern #minimal #tea #coffee #teabowl #bowl #contemporary #contemporaryart #art #fineart #picoftheday #fff #photooftheday #style #drink #perfection

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29 September, 2016

My tableware in use – one of my handthrown porcelain bowls: Sometimes people ask if one could use my bowls and plates……..Sure you can! You may fill in whatever you want – and sure they are dishwasher safe as well. #ceramics #porcelain #tableware #pottery #food #art #contemporaryart #interiordesign #kitchen #making #simple #modern #style #stilllife #foodstagram #fff #picoftheday #pictureoftheday #sushi #photooftheday #home #shape #clay #handmade #perfection #japan #korea #zen #zurich #switzerland

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28 September, 2016

Porcelain at its best – my handthrown collection: Plates and bowls in different sizes! #ceramics #porcelain #tableware #clay #pottery #making #handmade #simple #modern #craft #zen #korea #japan #fff #zurich #switzerland #stilllife #styling #home #elegant #perfection #shape #food #bowls #drink #art #contemporaryart #interiordesign #tea #coffee

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25 September, 2016

Sugarbowls? Porcelain from Limoges, handthrown and coated in different colors or just in beautiful white. Have a sweet Sunnday! And yes, there are some of them in my online store….. #ceramics #porcelain #pottery #bowl #tableware #shopping #store #sugar #sweet #white #red #green #simple #modern #art #contemporaryart #fff #picoftheday #photooftheday #interiordesign #home #food #zurich #switzerland #japan #korea #zen #making #craft #handmade

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25 September, 2016