Shirley Gromen Ceramics



About The Artist
Ridge, MD
Ceramics • CUSTOM COMMISSIONS
Shirley Gromen received her MFA in ceramics from The Ohio State University. She worked many years as a graphic designer before returning to the clay studio. She works out of her studio on Southern Maryland inspired by the ever-changing natural world of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. She interprets different species of birds and fish on functional and sculptural porcelain forms hoping to bring to the user an awareness and appreciation of the variety of interdependent life that surrounds us.
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Q&ATell us how your work is made.Using a mid-range porcelain clay body I throw or handbuild my forms. I use carving, mishima (a line is incised into the form which is then filled with a colored slip. The excess is scraped away to reveal a fine line) and sgraffito (the form is painted with a black slip, the image is created by carving away the black to reveal the white clay body.) techniques to create the drawing. After a bisque firing the interior of the forms are glazed with teal, black or clear glaze and fired to cone 6. |