11. Katsumata Chieko 勝間田 千恵子

Katsumata Chieko was born in 1950 in Gotenba, Shizuoka Prefecture. She studied at Japan Women's University and received a scholarship to study Industrial Design in Paris in 1972. There she became inspired to make ceramics, a passion she would subsequently always remain true to. She opened her studio in Kyoto and has since had numerous exhibitions both in Japan and in Europe and the United States, where she initially received more recognition for her work than in Japan itself. Katsumata Chieko's work is characterized by forms that seem to find her inspiration in nature, presented as pumpkin-like or half-opened flower buds in countless variations. She achieves the beautiful colors by not painting the dye directly onto the pottery, but through a thin piece of cloth, then firing the work. This process repeats several times with a different color each time. The results are surfaces that appear to have depth of color, with an unparalleled soft, satiny texture and metallic patina. Katsumata Chieko is now counted among Japan's greatest ceramic artists, both in Japan and abroad. Her work can be seen in prominent museums such as the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée Cernuschi in Paris and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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