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Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

On the road of purple sand craftsmanship, there is no shortage of excellent masters, and there is such a beautiful purple sand craftsman, the daughter of Lu Huijun, the non-hereditary heir of purple sand, who is not only beautiful, but also makes a pot that is extremely ingenious. This beautiful craftsman is Lu Jiejie.

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Born in 1991, he entered nanjing jinling institute of science and technology in 2009 for undergraduate study, and was later admitted to China University of Geosciences majoring in art and design. After graduation, he entered the purple sand industry to study deeply, and was guided by many masters during this period, and was greatly grateful. He is now engaged in the creation of purple sand in Yixing Taoyuan Purple Sand Studio.

Teacher Lu Jiejie, from a pot-making family, pays great attention to the choice of clay materials, pays attention to the practical function of her works, and does not lack the beauty of modeling. Good purple sand clay, with the good craftsmanship of Teacher Lu, the painstaking efforts poured into it are not something that can be said in three words. The appearance, water color and late pot raising effect are all first-class. Teacher Lu Jiejie's works, under the teaching of her father and mentor, have incorporated their own understanding and concepts into the style, atmospheric design concepts, thoughtful and delicate artistic techniques, expressing the purple sand pottery soul, and the rhyme of purple sand is leisurely and transparent.

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Yixing Taoyuan Village Lu family, a hundred years of heritage. Teacher Lu Jiejie, the head of Taoyuan brand purple sand, was born in 1991 and has loved purple sand art since childhood, following her grandfather and father to play in the purple sand mud, with super hands-on ability. Lu Jiejie is a very spirited little girl, reading and learning is also very serious and hard, in addition to the time of study, purple sand art creation has become her only hobby! In 2009, she entered Nanjing Jinling Institute of Science and Technology to study, the colorful four-year college career still did not affect Lu Jiejie's love for purple sand, she bought a lot of purple sand classics to use her spare time to study and learn purple sand culture, during the winter and summer vacations Lu Jiejie is still obsessed with her purple sand small world, and she has a lot of her own unique insights. After graduating from college in 2013, she spent all her spare time in the creation of purple sand, and after a few years, she already had many of her own very personalized masterpieces.

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Lu Jiejie's purple sand works. Lingyun pine pile pot

In 2015, under the guidance of lu Huijun, the inheritor of his father's intangible cultural heritage, lu Huijun, he registered the century-old brand "Tao Yuan", an ancestral trademark. When Lu Jiejie was a child, under the influence of her family, she loved purple sand design and production, and pottery carving art. Although there are ups and downs, bumps and twists and turns, but finally persisted to this day, continued my father's advice: consistent inheritance and innovation, the works are made of natural raw ore purple sand materials, using their own traditional pot making technology and innovative techniques, highlighting its exquisite skills, self-contained, forming a unique and innovative style. Lu Jiejie has inherited and innovated from the old pot in her family since childhood, and the shape of the purple sand pot designed not only respects tradition, but also "square is not one style, round and different phases", highlighting the changes, and the shape is both quaint and fashionable, simple and natural.

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Lu Jiejie's purple sand works. Buddha belly pot

She adheres to the ancestral precepts, the raw materials used in the purple sand pot are very exquisite, the advantages and disadvantages of the "mud" determine the taste of the purple sand pot, the good pot must be a good mud achievement, only the good mud will make a double breathable structure, high water absorption rate, strong breathability, and "color is not colorful, the quality is not greasy" good pot, Tao Yuan purple sand century-old inheritance of an immutable habit is today's works have been decayed for more than decades of old mud, committed to the research and creation of purple sand art, art sea mining, since then the skill has improved.

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Craftsmen need decades to achieve, ingenuity needs hundreds of years to inherit, Lu Jiejie, inherit a hundred years of skills, innovative style. Although the purple sand pot is small, it brings together a century of ingenuity and a thousand years of culture. Her works are innovative in inheriting the classics, and the appearance is simple and natural in the "light goods" type; In the "flower goods" shape, the technique is rich and has a typical Taoyuan purple sand Lu aesthetic style; In the shape of the ribbed vessel, the texture of the tendon sac is clear and the depth is free.

She has always adhered to it, meditated on being a craftsman, meticulously making art, indifferent to fame and fortune, and indulging in the study and creation of purple sand art in a down-to-earth manner.

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Lu Jiejie's purple sand works. Jinlian lift beam pot

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Lu Jiejie's purple sand works. Bamboo rhyme circle button pot

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Lu Jiejie's purple sand works. Dish YueLian incense pot

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Lu Jiejie's purple sand works. Ancient wind zi smelting stone scoop pot

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Lu Jiejie's purple sand works. Clay painted flowers and birds Blessing Pro Bafang pot

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Lu Jiejie's purple sand works. Clay painted flower bird Hanfang pot

Lu Jiejie, a rural revitalization arts and crafts artist: A handful of soil pinches out thousands of forms

Lu Jiejie's purple sand works. Lotus set pot

About the Author:

Lu Jiejie, born in Yixing Dingshu Town pottery family, her father is a well-known purple sand craftsman in Yixing, the teacher of Lu Huijun, the inheritor of the purple sand intangible cultural heritage, who has heard of the thousand-year-old pottery culture, and has a young talent who loves poetry and book carving, and after graduation, she immersed herself in learning from many pot makers. The basic skills are solid, and after the study and absorption of the formalized ceramic theory of higher learning, I have benefited a lot, the works are dignified and atmospheric, the atmosphere is clear, the ancient rhyme is full of ancient rhyme, the mud, shape, work, style, and merit are all good, and it is a rare strength purple sand artist for the middle and young generation. Praised by peers and collectors.

Source: Xinhua Net