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Tbt 2006. Sundaymorning, when looking for a new picture to post…..I found that old one: Edition ‚Potterpieces’, November 2006. Jar and beakers. The jar is handthrown from stoneware and coated with my white matte glaze, the beakers are from porcelain. Wondering if they will still exist? #ceramics #ceramic #vessel #exhibition #white #handmade #art #artist #craft #elegant #zen #tableware #handcrafted #pottery #zurich #switzerland #fineart #simple #minimalism #wheelthrown #makersgonnamake #gallery #quiet #magic #poetry #past #empty

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10 Juni, 2019

Coffee is over, Monday morning can start! Beakers and cups are handthrown from white porcelain to test some colors for something: I do not remember what is was: Around fifteen years ago my ceramic world was colorful for a short time. And still I have these pieces in use… #ceramics #coffee #morning #handmade #pottery #artist #espresso #colors #yellow #pink #blue #porcelain #craft #past #zurich #switzerland #elegant #simple #funny #goodmorning #mondaymorning #modern #contemporaryart

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18 Februar, 2019

A beginning – in 2006 I started with one of my first tableware collections: All pieces were hand thrown from stoneware and after the first firing, I coated them with different celadon craquele glazes that I created for this collection. It was a production time that I stopped more or less five years later. In 2018, I felt like in these days…… #ceramics #tableware #handmade #past #collection #pottery #zurich #exclusive #eat #switzerland #productdesign #craft #tbt #japan #series #zen #longtimeago #quality #food #interiordesign #cups

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21 Januar, 2019

Trip to the past: Stella – our newfoundland dog in the snow and for ever in our hearts. #dog #newfoundland #winter #snow #ceramic #garden #nature #love #animal #nature #familytime #past #remember #switzerland #zurich #white #biglove #neverforget #goodtimes #brown #sweet

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16 Januar, 2019

When my daughter finds a tree….I have not a lot of time for ceramics at the moment because I am practicing every day for hours for a concert with our choir that takes place next Saturday and Sunday. I need a lot of concentration – my daughter shows me how to do it. Of course I am still working in the studio but for this week only in the afternoon. I love music and singing and it is a great time at the moment! Soon I will be back with new ceramic work here that I am making for my winter exhibition and that is a kind of a secret until Sunday, Dec 9 when the exhibition will open. #nature #sky #snow #dance #funny #photography #yoga #happyday #monteverita #tea #family #love #past #winter #travel #switzerland #zen #movement #yogalove #yogalife #dancelife #ballet #concentration

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27 November, 2018

Back to the roots, 2: In 2006 I made one of my first tableware collection, called ‚PUR’. These days I am working again on that collection for a reorder of a client who is using the dishes since 2007. He needs new plates and bowls for a party of sixteen. The plates will have a diamerer of 30cm, they are quite big and I need a lot of energy to make them…..I am also working on new stoneware tea bowls, finally! It is a pleasure to work with stoneware clay – so different from porcelain! All the pieces on the pic are hand thrown in 2006 with stoneware clay and I coated them with different celadon craquele glazes – I created some colors, kind of blue, green, brown and yellow. I am still using a lot of plates and cups from these days and my first collection – most of the pieces are twelve years old: I am a bit proud – great quality! #ceramics #tableware #handmade #home #collection #pottery #zurich #exclusive #eat #switzerland #pottery #craft #family #japan #series #zen #longtimeago #past #quality #artwork #interiordesign #blue #green #black #tea #coffee #dishes #paradise

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12 Oktober, 2018

Me. #artist #selfie #o #olddays #past #blackhair #black #blackandwhite #photography #picture #holiday #young #sunday #tbt #zurich #switzerland

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29 Juli, 2018

Collection ‚Masterpieces, 2006. vase, hand thrown, stoneware and coated with a green celadon craquele glaze – one of my a classical works: I made hundreds of them in my past – until I stopped making them. You will find all information about my work on my website, www.helga-ritsch.ch. #ceramics #stoneware #ceramic #celadon #green #teatime #zen #design #art #crafts #contemporaryart #making #simple #green #working #series #vase #stilllife #zurich #switzerland #past #photooftheday #exhibition #homesweethome #japan #picoftheday #scenery #interior #architecture #classical

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20 Juni, 2018

Sometimes it is funny to loock back – tea set, hand thrown in stoneware and coated with a green celadon craquele glaze: Made in 2006. It was not a serious thing, I was playing…. #tea #green #ceramics #tealovers #meretoppenheim #teabowl #zen #design #art #crafts #contemporaryart #making #simple #drink #white #series #delicate #stilllife #zurich #switzerland #tableware #interior #exhibition #handmade #japan #past #scenery #interior #architecture #home

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30 April, 2018

In 2006 – yes, twelve years ago – I made one of my first tableware collections. Slide through the pictures on the post, you will find most of the pieces I made and on one of the last photos you will see my house where I lived and worked – it was my paradise…. All pieces were hand thrown wirh stoneware clay and I coated them with different celadon craquele glazes – I created some colors, kind of blue, green, brown and yellow. Inam still using a lot of plates and cups from these days – imagine, most of the pieces are twelve years old: I am a bit proud – great quality! #ceramics #tableware #handmade #home #collection #pottery #zurich #exclusive #eat #switzerland #pottery #craft #family #japan #series #zen #longtimeago #past #quality #artwork #interiordesign #blue #green #black #tea #coffee #dishes #paradise

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17 März, 2018

Lonely coffee cup…. it is the very last one of uncountable ones that I made in the last fifteen years. All were hand thrown and coated with a matte black glaze and I made the red thread on the rim. I will not make them again – so maybe I will take this one for me and my memories. #ceramics #black #handmade #pottery #craft #lonely #memories #series #past #artwork #tableware #projects #red #zen #zurich #switzerland #hongkong #beautiful #home #interiordesign #architecture #cup #plate #newyork #photo #drink #coffee #tea

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14 März, 2018

My grandmother. Happy womensday – do never forget your rights! #womensday #happywomensday #right #strongwomen #womensupportingwomen #womensday2018 #grandmother #italy #switzerland #world #power #womenpower #march #mother #fighting #allaroundtheworld #today #zurich #past #future #daughter #weltfrauentag #frauenrechte #grossmutter #mutter #tochter

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08 März, 2018

My way to pottery – part 4. In 2002 I started working at the potter’s wheel. For ever unforgettable is the first step: During one hour I have a first fight with about 200g of clay. After this hour I was a piece of clay and water – my hair, my clothes, my shoes, the space around me. It was terrible. I never, never wanted go back to this machine, I wanted bring back it to where I bought it. But I did not. Instead of this I started looking for somebody who could help me. Not only in the technical way, I felt, that I needed someone who could motivate me…… I looked around for about a year and was not happy with the classes I found and took part. But then I saw him and his works – my post from today shows some of his vases – and I suddenly knew: He was the one I was looking for. I stay with him for five years. Three days a week from the morning to the evening I was in his studio fighting with clay and more. Sometime it was a horrible time and sometime one of the best I ever had. It was all about practice and balancing. During this time I made my first exhibitions, I opened my first potter studio. In 2008 I stopped. I needed a rest to think about all: Should I go on? Should I stop forever? Was pottery the thing I wanted to go on with? #ceramics #vase #studio #studio #architecture #masterpiece #pottery #series #perfection #handmade #craft #clay #making #simple #exhibition #project #abstract #perfect #past #zurich #switzerland #art #photo #scene #modern #japan #elegant #korea #china #nature

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06 März, 2017

Our house and the studio entrance in 2008. My way to pottery – part 3. For the next three years I was working on that tile production: I bought a first kiln, a lot of clay and other materials and books. I learnt a lot about clay and glazes and temperature, I made a lot of mistakes,too and sometimes it was very frustrating. But I never gave up: The moment, when I opened the door of the kiln was unique and made me forget all the negative feelings. The tiles became part of walls, bathrooms, kitchen, halls, swimming pools and I was very busy. Not only with my architectural projects. As I already wrote I had three littles daughters at that time and: I had another company as well. In 1996 I founded an education and communication company and it grew to a business with more than fifty employees and hundreds of clients who were coming and going the whole day. So I balanced between three stages for years. The ceramic studio was the only place where I was a little moment for myself and I needed it – and I wanted to go on. That is why I bought a potter’s wheel. I suspected: This would be a challenge – but I did not know at this moment, how challanging it would be in reality….. #ceramics #tea #studio #porcelain #architecture #atelier #pottery #series #colors #handmade #craft #clay #making #simple #countryhouse #project #abstract #perfect #past #zurich #switzerland #art #photo #scene #modern #japan #elegant #korea #china #nature

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04 März, 2017

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