On Saturday, May 23, 2009, I attended the Third annual Providence Open Market for my first time. It was a most enjoyable day since I have such a passion for artists and their creations since that was my field years ago when I attended Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York in the 60's and specialized in ceramics and design. I transferred to RI College , in Providence, RI and majored in art and education and became a secondary art instructor in East Providence, RI
At this open market I found so many talented artists and some brought back and reminded me of those happy days when I did ceramics and drew my abstractions in pastels, and acrylics. There were many tents set up displaying the artworks of these artisans.There weremany jewelry designer, magnes, pins, banners + more. Of all the artists there I found my two favorites, both doing the type of art I loved ceramics and design.
I was able to meet and talk with such a sweet young woman, HILAL MINDA, from Turkey who now lives in Providence , RI and does pottery, her business, established in 2001 named, New Moon Studio,
Hilal graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Marmara Istanbul, Turkey. with a four-year program in the Ceramic Department, She created functional art pieces by the wheel or by hand. I told her when I was at Syracuse I loved the potter's wheel and created many thrown pieces, one in particular was my birds in a nest, very decorative and abstract. ( I will need to take some photos and blog about it.) I told her I made my own glazes to create special effects and designs. I love Hilal's work She is extremely gifted and has made some fantastic and unique one of a kind pieces. She made my day. Before I had a family I had a dream to have my own ceramic shop equipped with my own kiln.
My other special artist is SOPHIE LOWERY, who is an acrylic paint with her busines named "Pause and Daydream" Sophie is from Normany, France but has made her home for 20 years in Boston. She loves New England and gets her inspiration for heranimals, landscapes and seascapes from France and New England aShe love to paint her view of nature.
Sophie' s paintings depict her scenes in an impressionistic abstraction. Her works are simliar to my style of using design to fool the eye with atechnique called TROMPE L'OEIL.
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