Colored Ceramic Bowls
I believe anything beautiful makes you think of the creator, who created so much beauty around us in this world. I always wanted to create art/craft, inspired from this natural beauty that surrounds us, and bring it into people’s daily lives. When we shifted to Adelaide, due to the shortage of money, I couldn’t afford to get my large lamps shipped to me from back home, so had to think of working on smaller canvases to keep myself busy creating patterns on something.
I bought my first, white ceramic pieces from a shop called Pugmill, which supplies all kinds of ceramic wares, to paint on. If you have time, it’s a brilliant space to browse through … so many different shapes and forms - www.pugmill.com.au. I painted the piece, and painted it with the only Henna i had bought with me on our first trip to Australia. No one would buy it and I was so sad about it but then after the wait of four months, i decided to lower the price in the hope that it would well. Chris, guy who ran the shop told me, ” Do not lower your price, Adelaide is slow, but someone will buy it one day … just keep waiting.”
I waited for another three months and then one day I received an envelope, with the payment to my first art work in Australia, of $20. I was thrilled that day of course !! I decided to buy some more of the ceramic wares, paint them as samples and take them to the Jam Factory. I knew no one there, but our friends Tom and Rosie, suggested I go and visit the Head of ceramics at that time, Philip Hart.
I still remember I walked in there, with no money in my bag and showed Phil my work. He offered to help instantly and suggested a few things to me and soon he made me my first 50 bowls, and told me I could pay him when I see these bowls. It was exciting working with Phil, and learning from him as he’s truly an amazing ceramic artist. I cant thank him enough because it was him who helped me make my dream come true, of being able to make my patterns permanent on the ceramic bowls.
I started working with the classic combo of black and white, and they would sell like hot cakes and so the second lot of 50 bowls happened and then the next 100 bowls happened and so the story of my ceramic bowls began. Now I stock them in five different out lets in Adelaide city and Hills. After plaing with black and white, I made the terracotta with white ones, they are surely my favorite ones, because they remind me of home, as we have a lot of terracotta work happening in Pakistan. Then very recently, I experimented on the last 100 bowls, and created a whole lot of colors, which was extremely exciting for me … and luckily they have had a good response too.
It’s exciting to be able to keep creating and playing, with different shapes and sizes in ceramics … I still haven’t opened the world of glazes yet, but i hear that’s a totally new world, hopefully one day I am sure, I’ll get there too ! Right now, playing with the patterns is what i am enjoying on my bowls,working at the Jam factory once a week is also a highlight for me, as the head these days, Robin Best, is guiding and helping me improve my skills working with Porcelain.
I am hoping to be able to take out time to experiment with some new shapes for this years open day, I am planning in December. Lets, see what it turns out to be !!
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