Pan Juan
"Life is a grain of dust, and when it encounters water, it turns into mud, and when it encounters fire, it turns into pottery." This is the personality signature of Pan Juan's circle of friends, and perhaps the most simple expression of her love for ceramics.
Pan Juan is a native of Jianshui, Yunnan, and the chicken stewed in the steam pot tastes delicious, and the purple pottery vase of grandma's baby... The wide variety of purple pottery utensils in the family left the first form in Pan Juan's heart when she was a child. She said: "It's something that's carved into my bones. ”
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In 2015, pan Juan returned to Jianshui after graduating from the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts with a graduate degree in ceramic art to set up the Pansong Handmade Pottery Workshop. Pansong handmade adhering to the traditional pottery craftsmanship of Jianshui purple pottery, inclusive. At the same time, the introduction of advanced equipment and advanced pottery technology, bold innovation.
"Not limited to the traditional pot type, Jianshui purple pottery creation can be a painting, an accessory, a tea storage pot." Pan Juan introduced that Jianshui clay has five colors such as red, yellow, blue, white, purple, etc. After using the color of the soil itself to complete the modeling, wait for the temperature of the fire, so that each work can fully express itself. The traces of the soil after the dissolution of water, the shape of the hand, and the quenching of the fire, she called it "the language of fire."
In addition, Pan Juan breaks through a single material in her ceramic creation and combines a variety of elements. Glazed pottery particles are scattered randomly in specially processed bubbles, thin pieces of pottery embedded in them, and ivory resin seems to be plated with a silver edge under the light, which is a spark from the collision of ceramics and other materials.
"Natural things must be the most beautiful." Pan Juan said that she once stepped on the mountains and rivers of Yunnan and used clay five colors to make yunnan spring, summer, autumn and winter, outlining the clouds cirrus cloud Shu. She also looks for the source of her creation from poetry, or visualizes or figuratively presents a school of pastoral landscapes.
Pansong Handmade Pottery Workshop has created many innovative products for tourism culture, attracting foreign friends from Germany, the United Kingdom and Hungary to buy souvenirs. "Jianshui is a city with a lot of heritage and temperature, as a ceramic maker, I want to record our living conditions of Jianshui through art." Pan Juan said.
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