CERAMICS

Mônica Grohmann's produces mainly hand-thrown functional stoneware, decorative raku fired pieces, tiles and mosaics.

Her stoneware pottery is predominantly functional: bottles, vases and bowls figure largely among the one-off pieces. The bodies used are white and speckled clays and porcelain. The work is thrown, turned and fired twice. Pieces are biscuit fired at 1000 C, decorated with brush on glazes and re-fired at 1250 C.

Her raku pieces are glazed with tin, turquoise and copper matt glazes poured over biscuit fired pieces. Sawdust and shredded paper post-firing reduction.

* If not immediately available, commissions on indoor and outdoor mosaic, raku tiles and most of stoneware pieces are taken. Some pieces might take up to 4 weeks to be produced - from the date of commission to the date of posting for delivery or being ready for collection.

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Mônica started working with Ceramics at University in Brazil. In 1998 moved to England to live in the Potteries, Staffordshire.

2000-03: worked as a pottery demonstrator at Gladstone Working Pottery Museum. She first started throwing exclusively with clay and firing her work at earthenware temperatures producing pots decorated with grafitto and oxides.

2001-03: producing very delicate hand built pieces and started doing Raku firings with Huw Phillips.

Since her beggining working as a studio potter Mônica was mainly taught and trained by Kevin Millward, potter with studio at Gladstone Museum in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. In 2004, under his influence she made the option to use an electric kiln fired to stoneware temperatures.

2007- Mônica has a studio in Knighton and works also at the Kiln Bank workshop in Market Drayton - Shropshire.

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