Introduction to Nerikomi, inlaid porcelain

Maria ten Kortenaar lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
She was trained as a silver/goldsmith at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and earned her degree as master in 1985 from goldsmith and sculptor Jaap de Vries.

Since 1995 she started working with clay because it gives her more possibilities to work with colour.
Since 2005 she exclusively works with porcelain. The colours in her porcelain objects are through and through, the pieces are made with a special inlay technique : Nerikomi.
Maria is one of the leading specialists in the world in Nerikomi technique.

Her works were showed in solo exhibitions and International Bienales all over the world, and she won prizes in the Biennale of Taiwan 2008, 5th World Ceramic Biennale Korea 2009, the Mino Ceramic Festival, Japan, 2014.

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490€*

Mandatory annual membership fee : 15€

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