Victoria Littlejohn | Also Known As: Mullins

Margaret Bohls in known for two distinct bodies of work: Diagonal Grid Ware and Black/ White functional Ware. Each body of work is created using soft porcelain slabs that are strategically cut and assembled into three dimensional vessels. Bohls fires her work in an electric kiln (2,300F) to complete glazing.

Bohls? Diagonal Grid Ware begins with soft slabs that are pressed into low-relief plaster molds with varying patterns. Using molds allows Bohls to develop undulating walls in the finished work. To complete the surface of pieces in this body of work, Leaf and floral sprigs (applied molded or cutout motifs) are added at the leather hard stage. Bohls? Diagonal Grid Ware are then glazed giving it the appearance of semitransparent mottled hues.

Black and White Ware is constructed, much in the same way as Diagonal Grid Ware, using slabs of soft clay which is folded, cut and assembled by hand. In the case of the Black and White ware, the low-relief plaster molds are not used. The surface decoration is strictly limited to either black or white satin glazes that highlight the seams, folds and surface subtleties of the slab construction method used.