Ceramic Artist
Takeuchi Designs
Ceramic Artist
Takeuchi Designs
About Me
My Background
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My name is Teresa Takeuchi. I’m a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian from Richmond BC. I graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2000. I returned to Vancouver after living in Vienna, Austria for 7 years and currently reside in the lower mainland. I am teaching and teching in Surrey BC.
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
I typically draw inspiration from food and my environment. I want my art reflects my need to express myself. When I work with clay, I do not want to predefine who I am or what I do. I start with a general concept and as I work, then it changes and evolves with my distracted personality. Like any process it takes continuous repetition and redefining
Ceramics
My Inspiration
My Process
I mainly work with cone 6 stoneware clay and porcelain slip. I love to work on the wheel and make bowls. There is something so calming and relaxing about just throwing bowls. But I also handbuild and use prefab or homemade molds.
Most of the glazes I use are made from various recipes I have either created or collected from other ceramic a
I mainly work with cone 6 stoneware clay and porcelain slip. I love to work on the wheel and make bowls. There is something so calming and relaxing about just throwing bowls. But I also handbuild and use prefab or homemade molds.
Most of the glazes I use are made from various recipes I have either created or collected from other ceramic artists. I have altered some recipes to compensate for the different chemical composition of Austrian chemicals while also supplementing my palette with locally made glazes
My Process
Glass Fusing
My Process
The image process I use has been a lifelong journey which started because I wanted a unique way to transfer images onto my work. It has grown to encompass using a few different methods. Sepia decals made from photocopies, and single lithography type photocopies. I want the image to have its own mind like the clay. The image doesn’t have t
The image process I use has been a lifelong journey which started because I wanted a unique way to transfer images onto my work. It has grown to encompass using a few different methods. Sepia decals made from photocopies, and single lithography type photocopies. I want the image to have its own mind like the clay. The image doesn’t have to be perfect, it can be lighter or darker or move with the glaze.
Glass Fusing
Glass Fusing
Glass Fusing
Jewelry
Glass Fusing
Glass Fusing
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Photo Gallery
Small Gold rimmed Butterfly Dish
10cm by 8cm 2cm high
Porcelain with sepia decals and black underglaze litho print.
Cone 6 2018
Wheel Thrown Ramen Bowl glazed with Teresa's Blue and Crystal White
Butterfly chopstick holder and rock texture sauce bowl. Cone 6
Hand built textured bowl with Teresa's Austrian Purple. Cone 6
Examples of different rims of plates approximately 25 cm by 3 cm
Examples of porcelain cast marbled feet