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About The Artist

The Artist:

Florentina Looper is a Filipino-American artist specializing in slab-built, porcelain functional artwork and highly-detailed underglaze painting.  Trained as a classical canvas painter, she creates original, figurative and floral paintings on hand-sculpted porcelain. All pieces are meant to be used and appreciated daily in the home that transforms aesthetic experience.

Artist’s Statement:

“I'd like my art to be elegant, if not beautifully strange, and always breathtaking to its beholder.  As I create, I’m aiming to craft an heirloom piece whose magic endures past my generation. My aesthetic is heavily influenced by the great 19th century Impressionists, 19th century Western literature illustration, Medieval mysticism and iconography, and Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau figurativism.

Like many others, I see a depth of beauty in classic depictions of goddesses and nymphs, in the symmetry and vitality of young flowers and animals, but I prefer to reference these inspirations with intentional imperfection, asymmetry, and a hint of deterioration. For me, my art represents a personal act of creative defiance within a more encompassing, deferential ode to entropy.”

The Process

Playfully fanciful and feminine, each porcelain piece is one-of-a-kind and created with meticulous attention to detail.

GREENWARE: Each ware is shaped by hand from soft porcelain using a combination of slab-building and pinch methods before being allowed to slow-dry for 5-10 days.

BISQUE & PAINTING: Once fully dried, wares are kiln-fired to half their full temperature, hardening them for drawing and painting. Illustrations are sketched directly onto bisque, and then painted with underglaze pigments.

KILN-FIRING: Painted wares are kiln-fired to cone 6, transforming the porcelain into it's fully-vitrified (non-porous and maximum hardness) state and underglaze into a glass-shiny covering that is 100% food-safe.

GOLD DETAILING: 22k gold luster is painted on the fired wares and kiln-fired once more. The high temperature burns off all luster substances except the metal, leaving behind 100% 22k gold. Gold adorned wares are 100% food-safe.