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Sabine Turpeinen |
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Sabine
Turpeinen was born in Germany in 1952 and had
embarked on an academic career before quitting university at the age of
twenty in order to “work with her hands“. Still uncertain about what she
wanted to do she stumbled upon Bernard Leach’s “A Potter’s Book“ and her fate
was sealed. Not having any suitable place to learn to pot she worked half
days doing various jobs to make a living and spent the rest of the time teach
herself to throw on the wheel. This continued for a number of years before he
finally quit her job to set up a small workshop producing domestic wares with
no obvious Japanese features. After 25 years she and her Finnish husband
moved their home and her workshop in 2000 to the foothills of the Bavarian
Alps for a new beginning.
There she closed her workshop for three
years to learn and then specialize in ceramics for the Japanese arts of
Ikebana and Chanoyu (Tea Ceremony), which she had become increasingly
interested in. As a prolonged stay in The selection
of chawan above represents the first time that her work has been available in
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