Ceramic plates, 'Shipibo Color' (pair)

by NOVICA

Product Features

• Handmade by Victoria Garcia Zevallos
• Ships from Peru within 10 days
• For decorative use only

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• ASIN: B0002VR884

Product Description

NOVICA, in association with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-kind gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by master artists and artisans throughout the world. The intriguing patterns characteristic of Shipibo art are magnificently captured in this pair of ceramic decorative plates. Victoria Garcia has the enviable skill of combining the ancient techniques and art forms of her ancestors with her own creative talent, thus honoring them in a most unique manner. She hand-paints the extraordinary patterns faithful to the original designs of the Shipibo, who live in the selvatic area of Peru. Artisan Info: The ceramic art of Victoria Garcia, delicate in its elaboration and genuinely representative of Peru, possesses pre-Hispanic roots and a deceptive simplicity. Her dexterity as a loving potter exalts the earth, transforming it into noble clay works, finding always space for beauty. Jars, plates, masks and even utilitarian pieces of first rate quality emerge from her kiln in a creative song celebrating life. Her miraculous ceramic work has no voice but rather a reverential silence for its ancestral past, to the origins of water and earth - element and nourishment of her work. "I'm a self-taught ceramic artist - most of my learning I obtained in my workshop by the light of experimentation and reflexion. Nonetheless I did take courses in graphic design and ceramic art. I describe my work as contemporary ceramics of pre-Hispanic expression.