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Linda de Nil
Atelier Blauzuur
Reigerstraat 8
3051 Sint Joris Weert
Belgique
Tél. : 016 47 36 69
Email : linda.de.nil@blauzuur.be
Site : www.blauzuur.be
Linda de Nil, exhibitions at TEO
ExpoLain 2008 :"Céramique usuelle et sculpture céramique"


Linda De Nil was born in 1959
In Merchtem, near Brussels, Belgium,
where she set
up a pottery studio with the name BLAUZUUR.
Attached to the house and the studio there’s a small gallery.

During her childhood in the countryside she became intrigued by the enormous brick kilns that were set afire in the fields nearby. She often witnessed the kilns being built up, being fired and being dismantled.
These images never left her and she became a self-taught potter who has been firing wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain since 1994.
In 1995 she built her own Anagama-kiln in order to be able to make natural ash glazed stoneware and porcelain.
The kiln has an oval floor, and the cupola a pointed arch. The inner wall of the kiln is 9 cm thick and made from high alumina refractory bricks. Outside that is a 3 to 4 cm thick layer of ceramic fibre blanket, followed by a 10 cm layer of isolating stones. The inside is about three metres long, nearly one and a half metres wide and about the same high. It is a structure which has never shown any signs of subsidence, even after twenty batches.
The door is at the front of the oven. This is not only where loading takes place, but also the actual stoking. With loading complete, the door is sealed tight with fire-resistant bricks and clay, leaving just two holes. The wood is fed into the oven through these.
It took a lot of trial and error to get satisfactory results and to build up some kind of confidence in firing this kiln. With a five-day stoking-up there’s enough ash deposit on the pots so as to make the application of glazes and slibs or the introduction of salt superfluous.
My main concern over the last couple of years has been to develop ceramic forms that I feel are more in tune with this traditional and elementary wood-firing process. Vases are turning into vessels, pots into objects and smoothness is turning into coarseness.
I still make pots. Or so you could say. Pots traditionally have a high degree of functionality. But what if you can’t bring yourself to put flowers in a vase. What induces a semiotic shift like that? Would you still call it a vase? Maybe some vases can’t have flowers without looking silly. They are not defined by their function but by their space. Pots with a high degree of abstraction. Vessels thus, for containing air. Objects. But unmistakably still pots anyway. !
Since 2002 I’ve participated in numerous exhibitions and ceramic markets in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom.
I won the first price in Raeren (Belgium) in 2004 and the Peers Award in ART in CLAY in Hatfield-London (United Kingdom) in 2006.
Selected for the “Westerwaldpreis 2004” (Germany) Selected for the “International triennial of silicate arts 2008” (Kecskemét, Hongarije)



La céramique (poterie) en ligne,
Les céramistes (potiers) sur eurocéramique.com
ExpoLain en ligne est développé par Terres Est-Ouest - TEO

 
   




   
     
     
     
   

Linda de Nil qui vit à Sint Joris Weert en Belgique, expose à ExpoLain 2008. Dauphine Scalbert dirige Terres Est-Ouest, TEO, au Manoir de Lain, dans l'Yonne, (89), en Bourgogne, France, le Centre de Formation propose des concours... Linda de Nil qui vit à Sint Joris Weert en Belgique, expose à ExpoLain 2008. Dauphine Scalbert dirige Terres Est-Ouest, TEO, au Manoir de Lain, dans l'Yonne, (89), en Bourgogne, France, le Centre de Formation propose des concours...