Then I entered a strongroom of vocabulary...

Where words like urns that had come through the fire...

pottery

Stood in their bone-dry alcoves next a kiln...

And came away changed, like the guard who’d seen...

pottery

The stone move in a diamond-blaze of air...

Or the gates of horn behind the gates of clay.

pottery

Then I entered a strongroom of vocabulary...

Where words like urns that had come through the fire...

pottery

Stood in their bone-dry alcoves next a kiln...

And came away changed, like the guard who’d seen...

pottery

The stone move in a diamond-blaze of air...

Or the gates of horn behind the gates of clay.

pottery

Welcome- Ben-venuto!

Welcome to my site. I am Giulia, I make sculptures, pottery, and jewelry with many different clays, from commercially prepared mixes to wild clays that I dig and wash myself. I always work by hand, sometimes handbuilding, sometimes on a potters wheel.

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giulia.sbernini

Italian ceramic sculptor and potter. Inspired by the shapes of the Old ceramics traditions +the colors of the localearths of Italy and North America.

The world around me is all a buzz and a bloom And

The world around me is all a buzz and a bloom
And all I could think about was making hundreds of tiny flower vases…
Spring has fully sprang, thank goodness.

My dear and kind landlady rents the house next door to my studio, there are some English visitors right now, he is already tanning outside with no shirt on. I imagine that for him and his wife on holiday this corner of the world is quite dream like. And I am part of their dream-like moment making a picture perfect idea of Italy, fields covered with daisies, tractors and bees busy at work, potter working next door, a quiet lovely house to themselves. It is strange to imagine oneself as becoming part of a dream like landscape for someone else. I don’t mind, I rather lay my prayer though that each one of our home places, the holy ground of familiarity and day to day life is lived as if truly a great privilege, the mere fact of being alive to be there and witness it all…

Rimangono solo alcuni posti per il workshop a Rive

Rimangono solo alcuni posti per il workshop a Rive Rare sulla terra del Po, per iscrizioni scrivete a riverareguastalla@gmail.com . Vi aspetto!
Inoltre un assaggio dei pezzi che sto facendo e che saranno in vendita durante l’evento fatti interamente con la terra del Po!
A presto!

Ci sono volte che l’ho conosciuta cosi Milioni d

Ci sono volte che l’ho conosciuta cosi
Milioni di anni condensati in terra
Cos’è il tempo per l’argilla?

For the real tea lovers… I am working on my firs

For the real tea lovers…
I am working on my first Gong Fu Cha set. The making is quite intense as it required a very disciplined kind of presence. These small tea sets are the carriers and brewers of 100 year old fermented teas like Puerh and many others. I will be crafting some of these tea set with clay that o gathered by hand and has been aging for 3 years . I am getting an education on teas these days

#gongfucha #tea #old #handmade #stoneware

Crafting some funky shapes lately. I have big fond

Crafting some funky shapes lately. I have big fondness and admiration for Mexican and South American pottery, some of my inspiration come from there, some of my teachers too @lalosmartinez @karinagarrett.ceramica

New shapes and new collaborations Some of these va

New shapes and new collaborations
Some of these vases will soon be singing, all willing

Tazze in gres con engobio di terra locale raccolta

Tazze in gres con engobio di terra locale raccolta a mano. A breve sul sito

#stoneware #pottery #handmade #fattoamano #tazze #ceramiccup #wildclay #clayslip

Somedays it gets as dreamy as this Outside my stud

Somedays it gets as dreamy as this
Outside my studio window..
Stuck in a big snowstorm as if I was still back in Canada.

New new Marbled clay … wow! Always awe struck by

New new
Marbled clay … wow! Always awe struck by the multitude of ways clay let herself be mixed, molded, turned…

#marbleclay #marbled #handmade #whiteclay #purpleclay #fattoamano #wow

Così bello vedere ogni tanto dove vivono le mie s

Così bello vedere ogni tanto dove vivono le mie sculture. Questa è in casa di Alessia ed Alessandro e i loro due bambini qui a Parma, per me un grande onore.

Vaso canopo di Guido Picelli
Un omaggio a un protagonista importante delle barricate della mia città nel 1922 nella lotta contro i fascisti. Da Parma non ci passarono. Per fortuna abbiamo altro di cui essere fieri oltre alla solita tiritera su Maria Luigia con la puzza sotto il naso che ci ha lasciato la sua corte, bei palazzi però …

Ricomincio il vasellame per @erboristeria_agrifogl

Ricomincio il vasellame per @erboristeria_agrifoglio ❤️ dalla cara Giovanna. Un’oasi di sanità nel centro di Parma, li trovate mie tazze, tazzine e teiere quando e se le volete e tante altre bontà naturali e salutari
Tea time

#teatime #tea #teapot #handmade #fattoamano #pottery #ceramica

At times the first bisque firing can be a bit disa

At times the first bisque firing can be a bit disappointing in therms of the color palette of each local clay. Besides the white, they all lean in the terracotta hue direction.
An open pit firing truths better each clay natural color and beauty, always my preference when working with hand dug clays .
Yet for the sake of study and learning , I am proceeding with kiln technology for now.
And there are some high firings waiting too.

#local #clay #terra #amano #handdug #raccoltoamano #artigianato #locale #argilla

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Stoneware cups with local clay slips I love the h

Stoneware cups with local clay slips
I love the hues on this one .
Soon listed on the website

#pottery #stoneware #handmade #ceramiccup #tazza #cup #fattoamano

In winter I get to make tests and samples of many

In winter I get to make tests and samples of many kinds of local clays I gather during the year. I work with some of these ones already while others are new and there are a good few more that still need cleaning..
This time around I will try to make glazes from some of them, it’s an unknown territory for me but excited to try.
Good work, slow work, clay work

The new year, if I am lucky, starts like this for

The new year, if I am lucky, starts like this for me
With lots of local clay to clean. There’s a few new batches I am very curious about and a few projects awaiting that will ask a lot of attention and probably new learnings. Time to bend again.

ONLINE SHOP: Avete chiesto in tanti ai mercati se

ONLINE SHOP: Avete chiesto in tanti ai mercati se ho uno store online. Nonostante abbia qualche esitazione siccome preferirò sempre il contatto diretto dei mercati e conoscervi personalmente, ci sto lavorando su. Nei prossimi mesi sarà live sul sito.
Tutti i post con questo sfondo marmo saranno i pezzi che poco a poco verranno caricati per cui se vedere qualcosa che vi piace, rimanete sintonizzati!

#ceramica #ceramics #ceramicstudio #handmade #clay #argilla #italiancraftsmanship #stoneware

Qualche anno fa ho avuto il piacere ed onore di fa

Qualche anno fa ho avuto il piacere ed onore di fare un servizio di piatti intero con queste due immagini della Madonna con bambino, un’iconografia che mi è cara per motivi che mi sono misteriosi e credo vadano oltre la tradizione da paese cattolico dove sono nata e cresciuta. La Madonna e’ protettrice di soglie, di crocevie, di strade, un ponte tra mondi da sempre. Questo Natale ne avevo fatti solo due di questi piatti, un po’ anche per dare una certa presenza al mio banco, entrambi sono stati venduti come regalo per le nonne della famiglia.
Per me un grande onore.
Grazie dell’opportunità, ne continuerò a fare, la continuerò a cercare e studiare.

#lamadonna #madonnadishes #dish #ceramicdish #handmade #handdecorated #amano #sgraffito #sgraffitopottery #piatto

In March this year I was in Argentina and fortunat

In March this year I was in Argentina and fortunate to study with @karinagarrett.ceramica in Catamarca , these two pieces were the result of my time there and live now in my studio

There are only two of these offering hands in the

There are only two of these offering hands in the world that were made by my hands and each live in the house of my elders very far away from Italy.
These ones arrived few days ago at their final destination.
Working with the people one has learn so much from in mind can make a person very fortunate, this the case for me.
They are not casted from mold, each one piece is made as a single piece from a beautiful block of clay, coated with wild clay from Liguria and then kissed by beeswax to seal the deal. Amen to fatto a mano davvero.

#handmade #hands #handbuilt #sculpture

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