Andrea
Piller

Prince Edward, Ontario

andreapiller.com
@andrea.piller

I embrace clay hand building to make personal, distinctive, ceramic things.

The clay and I dance together. Who takes the lead? For me, experimentation might result in stepping on my partners toes, but this is part of the process. I consider my work to be a kind of accounting for my movement in life.The shapes, the marks, the results, describe, and translate my aesthetics and experience.

Inspiration may be a sightline, a walk, or a found object. Colours, skies, fields, stones, blossoms, and the air, converge and inform my thinking.

How will pushing, pinching, and configuring become an expressive,evocative creation?

There is a percolating pace to my practice that compels and catalyzes my focus and curiosity.

As I unload a glaze kiln I am full of hope. I anticipate the work will embody my expectations with grace and connection. I may smile at a new piece because each step worked in the process.

When this happens there is a tangible object waiting to delight, engage and cross into someone else's imagination anew.