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Motoko Wakana |
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Motoko
Wakana was
born in Tokyo in 1962 and graduated from Saitama University in She came to
England in 1999 and spent time working with Clive Bowen, Mary Wondrausch and
John Bedding before settling down in St. Ives, Cornwall. Motoko's
functional stoneware can perhaps to split into two different styles although
with both she combines white and dark clay, as she is fascinated by the
contrast. The first of these is her inlay or "mishima" pots. Here
impressed patterns are painted with a light coloured slip that is scraped
from the high surface areas when hard. Her other work using trailed slip is
perhaps more familiar to us and has its origins in her work with Clive Bowen
and Mary Wondrausch mentioned above. Motoko was one
of the two potters who took part in the East meets West exhibition at the
Harlequin Gallery during October 2002 and stayed in this country until
returning to Japan in the autumn of 2005. Back in Japan Motoko has continued
to pot and examples of this recent work are available below: - |
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