Monica Grohmann

Fine Artist and Studio Potter

website http://www.monicagrohmann.co.uk

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Mônica Grohmann

Born 4th Feb 1963, Rio de Janeiro

Fine artist and studio potter living in Knighton, Market Drayton, Shropshire.

In the '80's lived and studied in São Paulo, Brazil. Graduated in Art Education with qualification in Fine Arts. Posgraduation studies at Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo.

1987-88 Painting, drawing and visual communication with Carlos Fajardo, São Paulo.

1988-92 Etchings and printmaking under the supervision of the artist Evandro Carlos Jardim at Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo and joined the intaglio and printmaking atelier "Francesc Domingo Segura" at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo.

1993 Moved from São Paulo to Northeast Brazil and established her studio in the cosmopolitan village of Arraial D"Ajuda, Bahia. Lived there for many years, working mainly with painting and printmaking.

1997 Formed her own company producing handmade stationery and bindings.

1998 Moved to England and started working with ceramics. Started throwing at Gladstone Working Pottery Museum, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. Several years taught and trained by potter Kevin Millward.

From 2000 to 2003 worked part time as pottery demonstrator at Gladstone Museum.

2002 Opened her studio in Mucklestone, Shropshire. Raku firings with Huw Phillips.

2007 Opens Raku workshop. Started making tiles and mosaics at Kiln Bank Studio Pottery, Market Drayton,

Since 2005 Working with pottery, painting and printmaking. Studio at Knighton, Market Drayton, Shropshire.

 

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CERAMICS 

 

Mônica Grohmann's produces mainly hand-thrown functional stoneware, decorative raku fired pieces, tiles and mosaics.

Her stoneware pottery is predominantly functional: bottles, vases and bowls figure largely among the one-off pieces. The bodies used are white and speckled clays and porcelain. The work is thrown, turned and fired twice. Pieces are biscuit fired at 1000 C, decorated with brush on glazes and re-fired at 1250 C.

Her raku pieces are glazed with tin, turquoise and copper matt glazes poured over biscuit fired pieces. Sawdust and shredded paper post-firing reduction.

 

* If not immediately available, commissions on indoor and outdoor mosaic, raku tiles and most of stoneware pieces are taken. Some pieces might take up to 4 weeks to be produced - from the date of commission to the date of posting for delivery or being ready for collection.

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Mônica started working with Ceramics at University in Brazil. In 1998 moved to England to live in the Potteries, Staffordshire.

2000-03: worked as a pottery demonstrator at Gladstone Working Pottery Museum. She first started throwing exclusively with clay and firing her work at earthenware temperatures producing pots decorated with grafitto and oxides.

2001-03: producing very delicate hand built pieces and started doing Raku firings with Huw Phillips.

Since her beggining working as a studio potter Mônica was mainly taught and trained by Kevin Millward, potter with studio at Gladstone Museum in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. In 2004, under his influence she made the option to use an electric kiln fired to stoneware temperatures.

2007- Mônica has a studio in Knighton and works also at the Kiln Bank workshop in Market Drayton - Shropshire.

 

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