Artist Statement.
Since moving into my new studio, my work is all about the outdoors in the broader sense. Huge terra cotta flower pots, small architectural swimming pool elements and of course, my favourite subject, animals.
My detailed vases, sculptures and still lives feature animals in a natural scenery. Fish swim through algae or butterflies pause on leaves. Their plasticity is supported by realistic colouring or detailed relief work to further emphasize the different color zones of a specific animal. Next to this baroque works there are poetic porcelain landscape scenes with wool thread embroidery.
The creation starts with a rough cardboard true size model. The clay work begins with the making of the base which can be a box, vase, plate, tile … The details of the scenery are sculpted and added and finally the animals. Their personalities and size often require adjustments. This is where working with paper porcelain or - clay is a necessity. It allows for highly detailed work, for some humidity variations in a large piece and it extends my working time.
After that, a slow and cautious drying of the piece makes the bisque fire successful. The overall off white acts as a uniform base to decorate with ceramic color pigments and/or coloured glazes before carefully brushing on a final transparent glaze. A second and final firing, makes the piece come to life.
The results are one-off works that are handbuilt and sculpted, where I strive to implement a natural look and feel of the animal in an opulent, baroque scenery. These detailed and enhanced scenes allow the viewer to discover small details and fun elements.
Artist Bio
Golly Peeters is a Dutch Ceramic artist based in Brussels, Belgium.
Golly has been identifying herself as “a maker” from an early age, eg. by making string puppets. After a corporate career, she took up ceramics at the age of 45+ while looking after her widowed father.
To “master clay” as quickly as possible, she enrolled in various day- and evening classes as well as in many workshops. She thus obtained a BA and an entrepreneurial degree in ceramics.
With her work, Golly Peeters was shortlisted for the “Canvas Collectie” in Belgium in 2012. She also has been honored as a laureate at NCECA Houston USA in 2013 and she won The Public’s Prize in Den Haag in 2014 and in Vichte in 2017. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Belgium in 2008 and 2009. To this day, she continues to participate in numerous group shows between Belgium, Europe and the United States.
Her work can be found in private collections in Belgium & Holland, the USA and South Africa.
CV Highlights
Naam: Peeters Golly
Adres: Odon Warlandlaan 208, Bus 6 – 1090 Brussel – België
Atelier : Ceci n’est Pas Une Céramique – Molenbeeksestraat 189 – 1020 Laken - Belgium
GSM: 00 32 476 209989
E-mail: golly.peeter@icloud.com
Internet: www.gollypeeters.be
Born: Brugge – Belgium op 09/01/1958
BA Psychology
Personal Assistant to CO’s or customer service for different multinationals: Boehringer Ingelheim, 3M , Coca Cola & Kühne Nagel.
Artistieke opleiding is autodidact: teken en verf-technieken, hout- en textiel,fotografie. Worked as stage & prop builder and museum workshops for kids.
Ceramics (started at 45+)
Sept 2004 – June 2009 : Academy Anderlecht Brussels - Belgium
Sept 2007 – June 2009 : Entrepreneurial degree as Ceramist - Syntra Aalst – Belgium
2008 & 2009 Academy Salzburg – Austria
2010 Penland School of Crafts – North Carolina – USA.
2015 & 2018 West Dean College - UK
Awards
2012 Préselection Canvas Collectie – Belgium
2013 Laureaat Potters Council USA pour NCECA - Houston (Texas) – USA
2014 Audience Award - Keramiekmarkt Den Haag - The Netherlands
2017 Silver Medal- Most original Box – Vichte – Belgium
Solo Exhibitions
2008 The Devil & I - Ternat – Belgium
2009 12 weeks of Sint Michiels – St.Michiels Kerk – Leuven – Belgium
Group Exhibitions
2012 Gallerij G14 – Gent – Belgium
2013 NCECA – Houston (Texas) - USA
Céramics Annual of America – San Francisco – Californie-USA
2014 Parallax Art Fair – Londen – UK
Wall of Experience – Gallerij G14 – Gent – Belgium
Messagers de mémoire – Musée de la Céramique – Andenne - Belgium
Art Without Bars – Korbeek-Dijle – Belgium
2015 Napoleion - va-ART – Damme – Belgium
2017 Bottles & Boxes – Vichte – Belgium
2018 In The Box - National Botanical Garden - Meise - Belgium
2020 Op Eigen Hout – Gent – Belgium
2021 Happiness Reflected in Art – Orléans - France
2023 Maskers - Nationale Plantentuin - Meise - Belgium
2024 International Biennale of Decorative Art - Chisinau – Moldova
Work in the private collection:
Lerou Family – USA (commission) , Monique Homans – Brussels, Jean Pierre en Agnès Rammant – Leuven.