Lise Herud Braten: All is silent but the wind

Lise’s primary interests lie in creating decorative and sculptural forms with highly textured, expressive surfaces. The work is deeply rooted in the rugged landscape she grew up in in Norway, imbuing a sense of place, timelessness and quiet beauty within each piece, as if they were found, rather than made.

Lise employs a variety of techniques, manipulating, carving and altering thrown forms and slabs to create organic shapes and structures. She works in porcelain and various stoneware clays, applying a multi layered surface finish of oxides, slips, engobes, glazes and ash in a painterly and abstract expression.

These surface treatments suffuse the works with a sense of history, of time spent exposed and weathered by the natural elements. Each piece rich with texture and colour, inviting touch and a sensory experience as much as a visual one.

All is silent but the wind – a reflection on the vast empty spaces in the Norwegian mountains.